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1/ Here are some (ok, most) of the books I read and listened to this past year, mostly in order. Some real gems, as always. “A life without books is a life not lived” Jay Kristoff.

1/ Here are some (ok, most) of the books I read and listened to this past year, mostly in order. Some real gems, as always. “A life without books is a life not lived” Jay Kristoff.

Computational Neurophenomenology in a cabin in the alps! March 22-29, supported by my @erc.europa.eu grant #CONSCIOUS & organised by @singhal.bsky.social @robertchisciure.bsky.social & team. Application deadline extended until *December 28*. Pls spread word: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

A third way between computational functionalism and biological naturalism? @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social & @jaanaru.bsky.social think so 👇

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 years in the making, great to see this important new study (actually many studies) now preprinted. 👏🏼👏🏼 @peterlush.bsky.social

Wonderful and inspiring opening session at the CIFAR/TWCF Winter School for the Neuroscience of Consciousness, here in beautiful wintery Montebello, in Quebec. All of the participants gave 60 second intros to themselves and their interests. What a great group of people.

🥁Thrilled to announce that Prof. Anil Seth will chair the MESEC Winter School 2026 in Turkey🥁 @anilseth.bsky.social One unforgettable week exploring consciousness with one of the most pioneering thinkers in the field 🌟🧠 🎓 Applications open soon — stay tuned! 👀 🔗 mesec.co/event/winter...

It's a real honour to be chairing next year's @mesec-community.bsky.social winter school on consciousness science, March 22-28👇🏽

What would Francis Crick make of this? I really enjoyed being part of this conversation on consciousness with @anilseth.bsky.social @stevefleming.bsky.social @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social, hosted by @profbriancox.bsky.social. Listen now!

Some new additions to the Humanists UK Starter Pack today (we suggest following the whole pack!) @conwayhall.bsky.social @faith2faithless.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social @maggieardiente.bsky.social @ishash.bsky.social @stephenlaw.bsky.social @katherinestewart.bsky.social go.bsky.app/PTC4j2d

Entertaining and wide-ranging panel discussion on consciousness at the @crick.ac.uk hosted by @profbriancox.bsky.social and featuring me, @anilseth.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social and @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social Check it out, let us know what you think! www.lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...

Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there? Join me, @axc.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @lucinauddin.bsky.social & @metzinger.bsky.social for a Frontiers Deep Dive at 3pm GMT. Registration link is below

There are interesting arguments that thinking is not the same as computation. Eg recent papers by @anilseth.bsky.social and @neddo.bsky.social assets.super.so/68d1c369-feb... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am super happy to co-organize this workshop with @singhal.bsky.social, @kathrynnave.bsky.social, @annaeiserbeck.bsky.social, @robertchisciure.bsky.social, and @quantummoxie.bsky.social! Here is a picture of the location 🤗 Join us! The Application Deadline is 20 December! #ConSci 👇👇

We're very happy to announce another consciousness workshop in the famed snowy mountain cabin of the Austrian Alps! ❄️🦇 This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined) Applications are now open! www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

Welcome to Humanists UK! @anilseth.bsky.social delivered our Rationalist Press Lecture earlier this month tackling one of philosophy and science’s most enduring questions: What is consciousness? And could AI ever have it? We're very pleased to have him onboard. humanists.uk/2025/11/20/n...

A huge honour to be a patron of @humanists.uk 🙏🏽👇🏽

Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century, made urgent by rapid advances in AI. Join me, @anilseth.bsky.social, and @axc.bsky.social in this #FrontiersForum webinar to explore our Frontiers in Science article ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/x64CgqQpPXb

More signed copies of #BeingYou (& therefore fewer unsigned copies) - this time in the WHS Bookshop at Leeds station 👇🏽

Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century, made urgent by rapid advances in AI. Join this #FrontiersForum webinar to explore our Frontiers in Science article on a new phase of consciousness science ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/x64CgqQpPXb

What Would it Take to Convince a Neuroscientist That an AI is Conscious? I, @anilseth.bsky.social, and Michael Graziano weigh in: gizmodo.com/what-would-i... Thanks to Ellyn Lapointe for the opportunity to write about this.

Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.

The last talk on the second day of the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium was Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social on Can AI Be Conscious? Commentary by E.J. Green. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzvs...

"Cognition all the way down". Great to see this fine new paper from @robertchisciure.bsky.social & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social out now in Synthese - introducing a new metric to quantify biological intelligence as search efficiency in multidimensional problem spaces link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort. Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

INTERSTELLAR was released 11 years ago today. The 9th feature film of director Christopher Nolan, and one of the biggest science fiction epics of the 21st century, the story of how it was made will have you wondering at our place in the stars… 1/50

Thank you. An absolute honour and a huge pleasure too 🎃👇🏽

"Your Brain Isn't Hardware Running Software" | Clip of an interview with @anilseth.bsky.social and Michael Levin on Theories Of Everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzZl...

And it was indeed a huge honour - and a great pleasure too. Thank you @humanists.uk and @andrewcopson.bsky.social 🎃🙏🏽👇🏽

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1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

In an article for Frontiers in Science that ended up taking almost five years to compose, @anilseth.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social and I take stock of consciousness science, consider avenues of progress, and ask “what if we succeed?” www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

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What is consciousness, and could AI have it? It's an honour to be giving the 2025 Voltaire Lecture, this Hallowe'en (Fri 31/10), for @humanists.uk, at @conwayhall.bsky.social in London, 19:30-21:00 (also livestreamed) humanists.uk/events/volta... 👻

Good piece in @nature.com by Elizabeth Gibney on the @royalsociety.org Turing Test anniversary event. How did I not clock that Laurence Fishburne was in the crowd?? @garymarcus.bsky.social clear did :-) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday** Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains. Join the discussion.

Note that all 5 hours worth of the @royalsociety.org 's recent symposium, "Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test," with Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, can be found on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK... (I'm gradually making my way through it...) #AI #science

#Hemispherotomy is a surgical treatment for #epilepsy by disconnecting a portion of the #cortex. Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favaro, @anilseth.bsky.social, Marcello Massimini &co show that the isolated cortex has #EEG patterns resembling deep #sleep or #anesthesia @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3J9ci8X

Thanks @plosbiology.org - but this project was led by Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favoro, & Marcello Massimini - I was delighted to play a minor role in what I think is a terrific study 👇🏽

1/ "Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans" - out now in @plosbiology.org, led by Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favaro, & Marcello Massimini. 🧠

Please RT! 🙏🙏🙏 1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >> www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sleep is still a bit of a mystery! Beautiful article from @vyazovskiy.bsky.social! aeon.co/essays/two-b...

It's an honour to be speaking, in a few minutes, at the memorial symposium for the greatly missed, and the simply great, Daniel Dennett provost.tufts.edu/events/denne...

We can explain the universe — but not consciousness. Anil Seth on why the hardest mystery in science is us. 🎙 Dark Matter, Bright Minds | Kindle Cast @anilseth.bsky.social #consciousness #darkmatterbrightminds #kindlecast

Reality doesn’t care about your brain. But your experience of it does. Anil Seth on dreams, consciousness, and how your brain creates entire worlds. 🎙 Dark Matter, Bright Minds | Kindle Cast @anilseth.bsky.social #consciousness #darkmatterbrightminds #kindlecast #reality

If you're in/around Sussex Uni, this Weds (15th Oct, 2pm-5pm) we have our annual research symposium for the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. More details and registration link here (in person only): www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Do I really exist? /listen to this podcast and wait for the answer/

A few highlights from six days in magical Bhutan 🇧🇹