Anil Kumar Seth | |
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| Born | (1972-06-11)11 June 1972 (age 52) Oxford, England |
| Education | King's College, Cambridge (BA) University of Sussex (MSc,PhD) |
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| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | University of Sussex |
| Thesis | On the Relations between Behaviour, Mechanism, and Environment: Explorations in Artificial Evolution (2000) |
| Doctoral advisors | Hilary Buxton Phil Husbands |
| Website | www |
Anil Kumar Seth (born 11 June 1972) is a Britishneuroscientist andprofessor ofCognitive and Computational Neuroscience at theUniversity of Sussex. A proponent ofmaterialist explanations ofconsciousness,[1] he is currently amongst the most cited scholars on the topics ofneuroscience andcognitive science globally.[2]
Seth holds an BA (promoted to an MA per tradition) in natural science fromKing's College, Cambridge, and a PhD in computer science from theUniversity of Sussex. Seth has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters, and is the editor-in-chief of the journalNeuroscience of Consciousness.[3] He is a regular contributor toNew Scientist,The Guardian[4] and theBBC,[5] and writes the blog NeuroBanter.[6]
He is related to the Indiannovelist andpoetVikram Seth.
Seth was born inOxford[7] and grew up inLetcombe Regis,[8] a village in rural South Oxfordshire. His father, Bhola Seth, obtained aBSc fromAllahabad University in 1945, before migrating fromIndia to the United Kingdom to study engineering at Cardiff. Bhola Seth subsequently obtained aPhD in Mechanical Engineering at Sheffield, was a research scientist at theEsso Research Centre in Abingdon, and won the veterans' world doubles title in badminton in 1976. His mother, Ann Delaney, came fromYorkshire.[9]
Seth went to school atKing Alfred's Academy inWantage. He has degrees inNatural Sciences (BA/MA,King's College, Cambridge, 1994), Knowledge-Based Systems (M.Sc., Sussex, 1996) and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (D.Phil./Ph.D., Sussex, 2001). He was a postdoctoral and associate fellow atThe Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California (2001–2006).[citation needed]
Since 2010 Seth has been co-director (withHugo Critchley) of theSussex Centre for Consciousness Science,[10] and editor-in-chief ofNeuroscience of Consciousness.[3] He was conference chair of the 16th meeting of theAssociation for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and continuing member 'at large'[11] and is on the steering group and advisory board of the Human Mind Project.[12] He was president of the Psychology Section of theBritish Science Association in 2017.[13][14]
Seth has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters, and is the editor-in-chief of the journal,Neuroscience of Consciousness.[3] He is a regular contributor toNew Scientist,The Guardian[4] and theBBC,[5] and writes the blog NeuroBanter.[6] He also consulted for the popular science book,Eye Benders, which won the 2014 Royal Society Young People's Book Prize.[15] An introductory essay onconsciousness has been published onAeon –"The Real Problem" – a 2016 Editor's Pick. Seth was included in the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers List that was published byClarivate Analytics.[16]
Seth appeared in the 2018Netflix documentaryThe Most Unknown[22] on scientific research directed byIan Cheney.
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