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What's it like being you?
Lian and Rama, IBDP students at Al Bateen Academy, talk with the ground-breaking neuroscientist Anil Seth about how we make and test predictions about the world, embodied cognition and what it's like to be a scientist of consciousness?
Anil Seth is a neuroscientist and author who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than 20 years. He is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness, a European Research Council Advanced Investigator, and Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness. His 2017 TED talk has been viewed more than thirteen million times, and his book Being You was a Sunday Times Bestseller and a Book of the Year for The Economist, The New Statesman, Bloomberg Business, The Guardian, and The Financial Times. www.anilseth.com, @AnilksethiBapu
