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The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth

The Royal Institution · 1.9M views · 2017-02-01 · 1:00:14

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Neuroscientist Anil Seth gives a Royal Institution lecture on the science of consciousness. He separates conscious level, content and self, and argues that experience arises from the brain's predictive inference.

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HN commenters recommend it as a clear, in-depth lecture on consciousness as a process of prediction.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2017–2018

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Consciousness & cognitionNeuroscience & the brain
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neom · 2017-03 · Strong recommendation

World Science Festival has a slew of really awesome talks etc on this subject posted to youtube: [LINK] And The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth is really great: [VIDEO] Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett: [LINK]

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qubax · 2018-10 · Recommendation

If you are interested in the brain, there are good royal institute lectures on youtube. The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth [VIDEO] The Neuroscience of Memory - Eleanor Maguire [LINK] Also, any book by oliver sacks is great if you'd rather read books rather than watch lectures.

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qubax · 2018-07 · Recommendation

I remember seeing this on hn before. The current thesis is that the brain ( consciousness ) is a predicting machine. A very interesting lecture by a neuroscientist. [VIDEO]

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