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 (3)

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
Published in: Interoception, 2024, Page(s) 105-124, ISBN 9783031685200
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68521-7_4

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

Peer reviewed articles (14)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other (1)

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

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