Professor Anil Seth is a Computational and Cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Sussex. His book Being You was a Sunday Times Bestseller. 

Take part in Anil's research

In this podcast we discuss:

• Anil’s latest project ‘The Dream Machine’


• What dreams are for?


• How your brain creates experience 


• How we see colour


• Why we all see things differently 


• What happens to your brain on Psychadelics


• What happens to your brains when you learn something new


• The illusion of Self


• Free Will 

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