Anil Seth

British neuroscientist

  1. For a conscious organism, but we can think of anything, a conscious system, there is something it is like to be that system.
    Anil Seth · The Lawfare Podcast · Scaling Laws: AI Consciousness with Anil Seth · 2026-08-14
  2. It's really not surprising that language models, if they're learning something about the deep structure of human language, that will imply the existence of a conscious mind behind it.
    Anil Seth · The Lawfare Podcast · Scaling Laws: AI Consciousness with Anil Seth · 2026-08-14
  3. They're very, at least in some sense, they're very, very deep mirrors that are reflecting an image of ourselves back to us that we are predisposed to sort of find appealing and gaze into, like Narcissus gazing into the reflecting pool.
    Anil Seth · The Lawfare Podcast · Scaling Laws: AI Consciousness with Anil Seth · 2026-08-14