Anil Seth

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1,118 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Even what we're going to do next, we sort of experience that at a particular moment.

This is incredibly useful.

Like an organism that's faced with a rapidly changing world that can move in many different directions, can do many things at any one time.

It's really useful that a system like that has something like consciousness.

Now trees, and I don't want to underestimate how rich and complex the life of a tree is, but it's not the same.

they don't seem to have that sort of capacity to behave very differently one moment to the next in response to many, many different things going on.

Maybe I don't know enough about trees, but they're just different from animals.

And so the problems that trees face might not require conscious experience.

So it's that with a nervous system, my guess is...

Trees are brilliant.

I love trees, but I don't think they're conscious.

Oh, you're asking me to do something that I don't generally like doing, you know, but, but fair enough.

Fair enough.

I mean, firstly, you're right that, that panpsychism is having kind of a little bit of a moment in the sun.

It seems to be appealing to, to more people that, than it used to.

Um,

So to steel man panpsychism, I think... Try not to vomit as you do.

It's fine.

It might be right.

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