Computational Neurophenomenology: Explaining Concious Experiences in terms of Neural Mechanisms

Project Information

CONSCIOUS

Grant agreement ID: 101019254

DOI

10.3030/101019254

EC signature date 3 September 2021

Start date 1 January 2022

End date 31 March 2028

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 436 768,00

EU contribution

€ 2 436 768,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Book chapters (6)

Perception and hallucination in humans and in machines

Author(s): Anil Seth
Published in: Other Intelligences, HEK (House of Electronic Arts), 2025
Publisher: Christoph Merian Verlag

Being a beast machine: An interoceptive basis for conscious selfhood

Author(s): Anil K Seth; J. Murphy and R. Brewer.
Published in: 2024, Page(s) 105-124, ISBN 9783031685200
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68521-7_4

Using extended reality to study the experience of presence

Author(s): Suzuki K, Mariola A, Schwartzman DJ, Seth A
Published in: Virtual Reality in Behavioral Neuroscience: New Insights and Methods, 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2022_401

Afterword. In Cosa si prova a essere un pipistrello?

Author(s): Seth, A.K., Thomas Nagel
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Raffaello Cortina Editore

Expectancies and the Generation of Perceptual Experience: Predictive Processing and Phenomenological Control

Author(s): Lush P, Dienes Z, Seth A
Published in: Expected Experiences, 2024
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003084082-4

Expectancies and the Generation of Perceptual ExperiencePredictive Processing and Phenomenological Control

Author(s): Peter Lush, Zoltan Dienes, Anil Seth
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Routledge

Peer reviewed articles (31)

Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects

Author(s): Paweł Motyka, David J. Schwartzman, Anil K. Seth, Keisuke Suzuki
Published in: Consciousness and Cognition, Issue 135, 2025, Page(s) 103934, ISSN 1053-8100
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103934

A continuity of Markov blanket interpretations under the Free Energy Principle

Author(s): Anil Seth, Tomasz Korbak, Alexander Tschantz
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2022, ISSN 0140-525X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/uy3zr

Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism

Author(s): Anil K. Seth
Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2025, Page(s) 1-42, ISSN 0140-525X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25000032

Theories of consciousness

Author(s): Anil K. Seth, Tim Bayne
Published in: Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 439-452, ISSN 1471-003X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41583-022-00587-4

Hybrid predictive coding: Inferring, fast and slow

Author(s): Alexander Tscshantz, Beren Millidge, Anil K. Seth, Christopher L. Buckley
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, Issue 19, 2023, Page(s) e1011280, ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011280

Unpacking the complexities of consciousness: Theories and reflections

Author(s): Liad Mudrik, Melanie Boly, Stanislas Dehaene, Stephen M. Fleming, Victor Lamme, Anil Seth, Lucia Melloni
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue 170, 2025, Page(s) 106053, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106053

Psychedelics and schizophrenia: Distinct alterations to Bayesian inference

Author(s): Hardik Rajpal, Pedro A.M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas, Christopher B. Timmermann, Stefan Brugger, Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, Anil K. Seth, Daniel Bor, Robin L. Carhart-Harris, Henrik J. Jensen
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 263, 2025, Page(s) 119624, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119624

Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond

Author(s): Tim Bayne, Anil K. Seth, Marcello Massimini, Joshua Shepherd, Axel Cleeremans, Stephen M. Fleming, Rafael Malach, Jason B. Mattingley, David K. Menon, Adrian M. Owen, Megan A.K. Peters, Adeel Razi, Li
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 28, 2024, Page(s) 454-466, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.01.010

Dynamical independence: Discovering emergent macroscopic processes in complex dynamical systems

Author(s): L. Barnett, A. K. Seth
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 108, 2023, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.014304

Seeing Ɔ, remembering C: Illusions in short-term memory

Author(s): Marte Otten, Anil K Seth, Yair Pinto
Published in: PLOS ONE, 2023, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283257

On the minimal theory of consciousness implicit in active inference

Author(s): Christopher J. Whyte, Andrew W. Corcoran, Jonathan Robinson, Ryan Smith, Rosalyn J. Moran, Thomas Parr, Karl J. Friston, Anil K. Seth, Jakob Hohwy
Published in: Physics of Life Reviews, Issue 56, 2025, Page(s) 4-28, ISSN 1571-0645
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.11.002

Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?

Author(s): Axel Cleeremans, Liad Mudrik, Anil K. Seth
Published in: Frontiers in Science, Issue 3, 2025, ISSN 2813-6330
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fsci.2025.1546279

An academic survey on theoretical foundations, common assumptions and the current state of consciousness science

Author(s): Jolien C Francken; Lola Beerendonk; Dylan Molenaar; Johannes J Fahrenfort; Julian D Kiverstein; Anil K Seth; Simon van Gaal
Published in: https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2022/1/niac011/6663928, Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 2057-2107
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/nc/niac011

Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism

Author(s): Anil Seth
Published in: Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 2025, ISSN 0140-525X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness

Author(s): Alex Gomez-Marin, Anil K. Seth
Published in: Nature Neuroscience, Issue 28, 2025, Page(s) 703-706, ISSN 1097-6256
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01913-6

Modelling phenomenological differences in aetiologically distinct visual hallucinations using deep neural networks

Author(s): Keisuke Suzuki, Anil K. Seth, David J. Schwartzman
Published in: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Issue 17, 2024, ISSN 1662-5161
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1159821

The Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Ego Dissolution and Emotional Arousal During the Psychedelic State

Author(s): Clayton R. Coleman, Kenneth Shinozuka, Robert Tromm, Ottavia Dipasquale, Mendel Kaelen, Leor Roseman, Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, David J. Nutt, Lionel Barnett, Robin Carhart‐Harris
Published in: Human Brain Mapping, Issue 46, 2025, ISSN 1065-9471
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.70209

An academic survey on theoretical foundations, common assumptions and the current state of consciousness science

Author(s): Jolien C Francken, Lola Beerendonk, Dylan Molenaar, Johannes J Fahrenfort, Julian D Kiverstein, Anil K Seth, Simon van Gaal
Published in: Neuroscience of Consciousness, Issue 2022, 2023, ISSN 2057-2107
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/nc/niac011

Stroboscopically induced visual hallucinations: historical, phenomenological, and neurobiological perspectives

Author(s): Trevor Hewitt, Ioanna Amaya, Romy Beauté, Anil K Seth, Timo T Schmidt, David J Schwartzman
Published in: Neuroscience of Consciousness, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 2057-2107
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/nc/niaf020

Minimum‐Phase Property of the Hemodynamic Response Function, and Implications for Granger Causality in <scp>fMRI</scp>

Author(s): Leonardo Novelli, Lionel Barnett, Anil K. Seth, Adeel Razi
Published in: Human Brain Mapping, Issue 46, 2025, ISSN 1065-9471
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.70285

Psychedelics and schizophrenia: Distinct alterations to Bayesian inference

Author(s): Hardik Rajpal, Pedro A.M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas, Christopher B. Timmermann, Stefan Brugger, Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, Anil K. Seth, Daniel Bor, Robin L. Carhart-Harris, Henrik J. Jensen
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 263, 2024, Page(s) 119624, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119624

Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans

Author(s): Michele Angelo Colombo, Jacopo Favaro, Ezequiel Mikulan, Andrea Pigorini, Flavia Maria Zauli, Ivana Sartori, Piergiorgio d’Orio, Laura Castana, Irene Toldo, Stefano Sartori, Simone Sarasso, Tim Bayn
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 23, 2025, Page(s) e3003060, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003060

Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition

Author(s): Pedro A. M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas, Andrea I. Luppi, Robin L. Carhart-Harris, Daniel Bor, Anil K. Seth, Adam B. Barrett
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2423297122

Ethical considerations for the use of brain–computer interfaces for cognitive enhancement

Author(s): Emma C. Gordon, Anil K. Seth
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 22, 2024, Page(s) e3002899, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002899

Consciousness science and constitutive a priori principles: on the fundamental identity of integrated information theory

Author(s): Robert Chis-Ciure
Published in: Philosophical Explorations, 2025, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 1386-9795
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2025.2550245

The strength of weak integrated information theory

Author(s): Pedro A.M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas, Daniel Bor, Anil K. Seth, Adam B. Barrett
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.04.008

Knowing that you know that you know? Anextreme-confdence heuristic can lead to above-chancediscrimination of metacognitive performance

Author(s): Maxine T Sherman, Anil K Seth
Published in: Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024, ISSN 2057-2107
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/nc/niae020

Capturing the emergent dynamical structure in biophysical neural models

Author(s): Borjan Milinkovic, Lionel Barnett, Olivia Carter, Anil K. Seth, Thomas Andrillon
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) e1012572, ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012572

Sampling distribution for single-regression Granger causality estimators

Author(s): A J Gutknecht, L Barnett
Published in: Biometrika, Issue 110, 2024, Page(s) 933-952, ISSN 0006-3444
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asad009

Greater than the parts: a review of the information decomposition approach to causal emergence

Author(s): Pedro A. M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas, Andrea I. Luppi, Henrik J. Jensen, Anil K. Seth, Adam B. Barrett, Robin L. Carhart-Harris, Daniel Bor
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Issue 380, 2022, ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0246

Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era

Author(s): Robert Chis-Ciure, Michael Levin
Published in: Synthese, Issue 206, 2025, ISSN 1573-0964
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-025-05319-6

Conference proceedings (1)

The perception of time in humans, brains, and machines

Author(s): Warrick Roseboom , Anil K. Seth , Maxine T. Sherman , Zafeirios Fountas
Published in: Behind and Beyond The Brain, 2024
Publisher: Bial Foundation Press