What Anil Seth thinks about consciousness
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Anil Seth has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingMachines are not conscious
Their wordsMy credence in consciousness for current LLMs being very close to zero
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Their wordsSecond, we describe with nuance the distinct flavour of panpsychism implied by IIT - whereby space (and time) are tiled with substrates of (proto-) consciousness - and find this is not problematic for the theory.
↗Integrated information theory: the good, the bad and the misunderstood (with 6 co-authors)arxiv.org All 3 from this paper
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Their wordsFourth, so far only proxies for IIT measures have been computed, and not approximations.
↗Integrated information theory: the good, the bad and the misunderstood (with 6 co-authors)arxiv.org All 3 from this paper