Anil Seth - The History & Future of Consciousness Studies

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What is the history of consciousness studies—during the past century and especially over the last 35 or so years? What advances have been made? What challenges remain? What problems seem intractable? What are trends and expectations for the future?

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Anil Kumar Seth is a British neuroscientist and professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. A proponent of materialist explanations of consciousness, he is currently amongst the most cited scholars on the topics of neuroscience and cognitive science globally.

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