The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth

Thanks to a very kind Spanish speaker, we now have Spanish language subtitles for this incredible video. Thank you so much. Gracias!

The fact that i can watch and learn this for free is truly a gift!!

It is good to be alive these days .Such a bounty of information.

The more I learn about consciousness the more capable I feel of influencing it for the betterment of my life. Thank you for the talk.

I always love listening to talks about consciousness.

An excellent talk; clear and orderly presentation, tempered claims with basic evidences provided. Thank you Professor Anil Seth, and thank you to The Royal Institution for making these talks public!

Fascinating talk. "You can think of perception as controlled hallucination" "Normal perception is a fantasy that is constrained by reality"

Excellent! Thank you for such and insightful and engaging talk on such a fascinating subject.

Thank you Anil Seth and The Royal Institution. I find you very effective "Information Sharers". AND, because of your Brilliance and Generosity, I have become more "informed" about this fascinating and seldom discussed/understood subject. I prefer to "learn better" than to "know better". Thank You for Advancing My Learning!, Ted Furlo

I am so grateful and I want to thank you for the lectures that I heard from you. You belong to a growing group in the world that teaches and illuminates and heals many dark and wounded souls. I don't know Neuroscience of Consciousness but in my opinion an excellent and amazing lecture. You have personally enlightened me important points in the physics and medical sciences. So I would like to wish you Good luck to you Anil Seth For any way you choose to go Always that the cosmos will illuminates to you the way even in the darkest places. Love you.❤️

What brilliant talk! Thanks for sharing this for everybody and thanks to Anil Seth for his contribution.

"I predict myself, therefore I am". I am a strange loop.

Thank you Royal institution and Anil Seth for this. This was amazing.

This has been the best talk on consciousness I have ever seen. It really shows the progress that is being made.

Psychedelics featured positively on a respected platform ♥️♥️♥️ you all should know what it is to be hyper-conscious

Absolutely the clearest explanation for a very complex phenomenon I know of .

Yet again another superb lecture. A fascinating insight into aspects of how the brain works, what consciousness is and how we can use this knowledge. I hope there will be more lectures on this subject.

I will not agree that nothing interesting has been written about consciousness until 1999 but I deeply admire the intensity of the will, to find what it is and what it is not, shown in this masterful presentation.

I enjoyed this lecture and learning the excellence of knowledge advance where Anil Seth takes a pivot role. Particularly, I find correlation with metaphysical higher consciousness "knowing" where he explains the "top down" comprehension of predictive information that is then constrained by our mental intellects in perception - rather than a feed of building upon basic information to form a solid decision of a material reality. In the realm of Supernatural, this is how we "predictively perceive" from past or future. We allow our decision making process to stay with greater boundaries than the diminished hard coded analytics of brain definition of reality. In simpler terms we use our imagination to source information and then allow the perception to form without the normative constraints of physical mental controls. It shows me that scientific approaches are even closer to transcending a relational flow of higher awareness. But truly, this is a video about "cognition" - i.e., the mental understanding of reality from those five sense approaches rather than bridging into the realm of metaphysic or greater consciousness - where as physics now addresses, there is no scientific blind control because the brain and our mental understanding limits the existence of the consciousness to a mundane, material level in the same manner as he now explains. Thanks for your knowledge sharing.

Thank you for this outstanding presentation by an outstanding intellect.