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Anil Kumar Seth (born 1972) is a British professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. He has degrees in Natural Sciences (B...

Anil Kumar Seth (born 1972) is a British professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. He has degrees in Natural Sciences (BA/MA, Cambridge, 1994), Knowledge-Based Systems (M.Sc., Sussex, 1996) and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (D.Phil./Ph.D., Sussex, 2001).

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After decades of pollution, chronic underinvestment and presiding over a fundamentally broken water system, water companies in England have finally apologised for the disgraceful state they have left our rivers and seas in and promised to change. But how on earth can we trust them? Of course, we we
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Anil Seth 11d

"We, the customers, have already paid for the water companies to do their job and deal with our waste. We should not have to do so again." Excellent piece from Henry Swithinbank @HSwithinbank @sascampaigns

Bewilderment is a 2021 novel by Richard Powers, published on September 21, 2021, by W. W. Norton & Company. It is Powers' thirteenth novel, his first since winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Overstory. The novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. A heartrending ne
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Anil Seth 16d

Yes, it’s a great book.

A powerful examination of what we think we know about the brain and why -- despite technological advances -- the workings of our most essential organ remain a mystery. For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discover
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Anil Seth 17d

Yes it’s very good indeed. @matthewcobb is a great science writer & I’ve been recommending this book widely too.

In 1984, the philosopher Aaron Sloman invited scholars to describe ‘the space of possible minds’. Sloman’s phrase alludes to the fact that human minds, in all their variety, are not the only sorts of minds. There are, for example, the minds of other animals, such as chimpanzees, crows and octopuses.
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Anil Seth 20d

Thanks @mpshanahan - & for more on the #GarlandTest see his excellent @aeonmag piece here:

#generativeAI makes non-invasive, individualised mind-reading possible by turning thoughts into text after extensive individual training (16 hours of listening to podcasts in an fmri) www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/01/ai-makes-non-invasive-mind-reading-possible-by-turning-tho...
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Anil Seth 27d

Good 🧵 from @j2bryson on a fascinating new “mind reading” study 👇🏽

In the summer of 2021, I experienced a cluster of coincidences, some of which had a distinctly supernatural feel. Here’s how it started. I keep a journal, and record dreams if they are especially vivid or strange. It doesn’t happen often, but I logged one in which my mother’s oldest friend, a woman
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Anil Seth 1mos

A meta-coincidence! What are the chances of that? Great article, which left me wondering how to estimate the true base rate of dream/reality matches, and a desire to reacquaint myself with the Pauli-Jung conjecture.

Into the Silent Land is a collection of case studies and short tutorials on neuropsychology, which is the science of analyzing the relationship between personality, performance, and the anatomical and physiological structure of the brain. Broks fuses classic cases of neuropsychology with the his own
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Anil Seth 1mos

Master illusionist @keithfrankish beginning his talk on the ethical implications of illusionism with this lovely quote from @PaulBroks1 - drawn from his excellent book Into the Silent Land

Understanding how context and expectations promote psychedelic-like effects, even without the drug, will help researchers to isolate drug effects and clinicians to maximise their therapeutic potential.
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Anil Seth 1mos

.@chrisletheby - on the difficulties of double-blind placebo controlled studies in psychedelics - cartoon by @PaulNoth in @NewYorker (and this excellent paper

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, carefu
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Anil Seth 1mos

/PS having just finished @WalterIsaacson's wonderful biography of Leonardo da Vinci (highly recommended), I can't help wondering how Leonardo would have performed in our studies, given his predeliction for writing in mirror script 🤓

From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, a psychiatrist who investigated the power of premonitions—and came to believe he himself was destined for an early death On the morning of October 21, 1966, Kathleen Middleton, a music teacher in subu
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Anil Seth 1mos

This was one of my favourite reads of 2022, and its now even more readable. Congrats @samknightwrites 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

A fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness. Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativit
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Anil Seth 2mos

Agree. This is one extraordinary book.

Introduction Long COVID (LC), the persistent symptoms ≥12 weeks following acute COVID-19, presents major threats to individual and public health across countries, affecting over 1.5 million people in the UK alone. Evidence-based interventions are urgently required and an integrated care pathway appr
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Anil Seth 3mos

Crucial work from @amibanerjee1. But we need far more trials like this to help the many millions suffering with #LongCovid 👇🏽

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