SPARKS: Professor Anil Seth – Dream Machine

How can collective artistic experiences help us to understand how our minds work? This short audio Spark introduces the Dream Machine – one of ten UK-wide projects from Unboxed. Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science; he also wears other hats including Editor-in-Chief for a leading neuroscience journal and he’s a best-selling author. In this neurologically soothing Spark, you can enjoy some of the atmospherics of a twenty first century Dream Machine - and the words of Professor Seth - as he explains how new frontiers in neuroscience are being crossed in this collaborative space between Arts and Sciences. With atmospheric music by Jon Hopkins. Disclaimer: This Spark has been created using material recorded online during the pandemic - so the sound quality varies in places, but this shouldn’t prevent you from enjoying the material. Presentation by: Anil Seth – Neuroscientist Music by Jon Hopkins: Jon Hopkins Dream Machine: About - Dreamachine Produced by: Unboxed - a UK-wide festival of creativity that brought together Arts, Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEAM). Brought to you by: The RSA - the royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. Where world-leading ideas become world-changing actions.

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SPARKS: Professor Anil Seth – Dream Machine is an episode from Bridges to the Future by The RSA.

This episode is 00:09:05 long.

This episode was published on Aug 22, 2023.

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