Neuroscientist Anil Seth Wins Berggruen Prize, Argues Consciousness Is Not Computation
Anil Seth, director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at Sussex, won the 2025 Berggruen essay prize and argued in Noema that consciousness is an attribute of life rather than computation. Steven Pinker endorsed the computational theory of intelligence while conceding it cannot explain subjective first-person experience.
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