Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, & dreamachines. TED speaker, & author: Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.
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1/2 Why AI is unlikely to become conscious – my 2026 @TEDTalks is now online. What do you think about the prospects for 'conscious AI'? ted.com/talks/anil_seth_why_…
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Children have utterly let down to date. But what does a ‘social media ban’ actually mean? Is this really age verification for all? And what does that entail? Because on the surface this looks like rushed populist techsolutionism that will hand *more* power to the platforms.
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀, 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻??
Biological systems unlike computers, but what does that mean?
Join us in Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon discussion with Romain Brette of his great book.
July 9, noon (USA-EST)
umd.zoom.us/meeting/register…
Open to all; registration required.
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1/ I was deeply saddened to hear that Inman Harvey has died. He was a wonderful and generous person, and an unparalleled intellect (his schoolfriend Geoff Hinton said that "he was always smarter than me"). This heartfelt obituary is by Phil Husbands: users.sussex.ac.uk/~philh/pu…
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4/ We last corresponded in 2025. He was keen to point out some 'glaring omissions' in my recent article about 'conscious AI', while en route to the Tibetan plateau to observe the Yartsa Gunbu (caterpillar fungus) harvest. His spirit of adventure was second to none.
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5/ The glaring omission? "To climb Mt. Everest and scan the horizon with telescope, in the hope of seeing oneself, is futile". Thank you Inman, for everything 🙏🏽
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Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Jun 11
What can a neuron compute?
Real biological neurons are complex, but how capable are they?
Using a new method, we found that a single cortical neuron can classify cats vs dogs, recognize spoken words, and solve 10-bit parity, all tasks thought to require entire networks. (1/15)
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Jun 10
Consciousness in humans and other things with Anil K Seth | The Royal So... youtube.com/live/ghxy9YTm5-s
You may have already seen this - but it’s an outstanding talk and Q&A session from a couple of years ago by @anilkseth
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Jun 10
Will AI be conscious in the future? Nice piece in @abcnews by Wren Gillet, featuring @davidchalmers42 & me abc.net.au/news/2026-05-30/a…
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Jun 9
1/5 New paper! Led by @LionelBarnett2 and @NadineSpychala w/ Benjamin Wahl and me .@SussexCentre: Granger causality maps for Langevin systems. Out now in @PhysRevE
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'Students need to wrestle with confusion to build their own understanding." Right.
nytimes.com/2026/06/08/opini…
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5/5 (iii) extension of GC maps and GC rates to classical *deterministic* systems (via shrinking the noise globally to zero, while retaining its "ghost" as noise variance-covariance maps in phase space). Here's the paper: journals.aps.org/pre/abstrac… (funded by @ERC_Research CONSCIOUS)
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1/5 New paper! Led by @LionelBarnett2 and @NadineSpychala w/ Benjamin Wahl and me .@SussexCentre: Granger causality maps for Langevin systems. Out now in @PhysRevE
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Jun 9
4/ Our approach may have considerable utility, allowing (i) calculation of GC rates directly from model parameters; (ii) construction of GC maps for Langevin systems over their entire phase space (allowing estimation of global GC rates too), and ....
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3/ ... including, critically, regions where dynamics are locally unstable. Intuitively, we fill in the 'holes' in the phase-space GC maps - allowing full phase portraits of GC rates - as illustrated here by application to a Lorentz attractor
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2/ Langevin systems describe diffusion processes, which are of very general interest across many domains. Here we extend previous work by Wahl (journals.aps.org/pre/abstrac…) to allow construction of Granger causality (GC) maps for every point in the phase space of a Langevin system ..
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