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Anil Seth: The Neuroscience of Consciousness
by Anil Seth
An hour at the Royal Institution in which the Sussex neuroscientist separates three questions usually blurred together — how conscious you are, what you're conscious of, and who is doing the experiencing — and walks through the experiments that bear on each. His central claim, that perception is a "controlled hallucination" the brain builds out of predictions, is the predictive-processing view at its most lucid.
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