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Anil Seth
Anil K Seth is a British professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, and co-director of the CIFAR Azrieli program in Brain, Mind & Consciousness

Anil K Seth is a British professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, and co-director of the CIFAR Azrieli program in Brain, Mind & Consciousness
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The Physical and Psychological Differences Between Men and Women
The biology and psychology of sex difference

Madness and Wisdom
Might madness be a strange form of wisdom?

The Secret Conjurer
How does the brain play tricks on us?

How Men and Women Think
Are mental differences between the sexes real?

Forgetting to Be Me
Is true memory a fantasy?

Who We Have Been and Who We Are
Is memory a recollection or a construction?

Narrating the Brain
Benjamin Dalton | Neuroscience's story of the self

Why Society Drives You Mad
Environmental psychology & mental illness

Mind, Myth and Madness
Are biological accounts of mental illness useful?

Seeing Through Psychosis
Juliette Burton | Illuminated by mental illness

How to Make the Right Decision
Fixing your biases with cognitive science

Minds, Matter and Mechanisms
Are humans more than machines?

Mechanisms of the Mind
Margaret Boden | Rethinking memory through AI

Mazes of the Mind
The philosophy of neuroscience

Hidden Desires and Secret Thoughts
Are We In Control of Our Selves?

Psychiatry and the Meaning of Pain

A Mad World
Is modern life bad for your mental health?

Against Psychiatric Diagnoses
We need another understanding of mental health | Lucy Johnstone

The Vital Statistics
Should gender differences be accepted?

The Science of Sex
On the real differences between gender and sex

Beyond Psychotherapy
When drugs won’t do

Memory and Forgetting
Forgetfulness and the self

The Science of Psychedelics
David Nutt | Can drugs transform mental health?

Positive Thinking and the Name Game
Should we not name illnesses?

Mind, Madness, and Power
Is psychiatry dangerous?

Where Is My Mind?
It's not all in the brain

Neuro-Everything?

Love Is the Drug
Can we have a pill that sparks love?

Metaphors of the Mind
Ophelia Deroy uncovers the origins of experience.

Drugged Up
Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry

Treating Psychosis
The limits of anti-psychotics

Memory and the Self
Do memories make us who we are?

Dark Matter of The Mind
Why human nature is not pre-determined

Madness, Incorporated
Are psychiatric diagnoses real?

Sex, Lies and Pharmacology
David Healy | Psychiatric drugs destroy sex lives

Neuroscience and the Mystery of Music
Raymond Tallis explains why our love for music remains beyond science's grasp

Madness: What's in a word?
The language behind it

Are We All Bipolar Now?
The boundaries of mental health

Taking Over the Asylum

A Checklist for Sanity
The limits to our understanding of mental illness

Sexuality After Genetics

Nature's Hidden Persuaders
The evolution of the placebo effect

Manufacturing Love
How to make romance last

How to Be Brave
In an age of anxiety, revisit the most resilient virtue.

Creating Change
The future of arts provision in mental healthcare.

How to transform your life with curiosity
And how to use it to your advantage

How medicine ignores our bodies
Physiology's challenge to medicine

Beyond the boundary
What comes after the afterlife?

Lucy Johnstone | In-depth interview
On mental health, diagnosis and formulation

A Paranoid World?
The difference between extreme belief and delusion
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Me, myself and others

Knowing what to believe
Free will: an impossible reality

What physicists get wrong about consciousness

The brain doesn't create consciousness

Are you responsible for your unconscious self?

The Dangers of Musk’s Neuralink

Moral responsibility without free will

Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function

Free will or no free will, punishment is justified

The impotence of reason

Schrödinger and the conscious universe

Why panpsychism is baloney

Imagination, consciousness and animal dreams

The free will debate has real-world consequences

Denis Noble: Free will is not an illusion

Consciousness may not require a brain

Big tech doesn’t want AI to become conscious

Pinker on the power of irrationality

Future AI in the therapist's chair

When are intuitions a good guide to reality?

Nietzsche: ignorance sets us free

Why Steven Pinker is wrong about rationality

Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking

The absurdity of mind as machine

Is rationality a fiction?

Brain noise doesn't explain consciousness

David Nutt: entropy explains consciousness

Bias doesn't always undermine truth

Brain vs Heart: a false dichotomy