Anil Seth

Anil Seth is a British neuroscientist, professor at the University of Sussex and co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. His acclaimed book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness argues that perception is controlled hallucination built by the brain from the body's traffic with the world, and that the self is a story the brain tells itself.

Seth is among the world's leading researchers on the science of consciousness, combining mathematics, experiments and philosophy. His popular writing and TED talks (among the most viewed on consciousness) have made him a principal public face of the field, and Being You was a Times, Guardian and New Statesman Book of the Year.