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Shermer and Seth discuss: \\u201cmind\\u201d and \\u201cconsciousness\\u201d in context of understanding how molecules and matter give rise to such nonmaterial processes \\u2022 controlled hallucinations \\u2022 the hard problem of consciousness \\u2022 the self and other minds \\u2022 consciousness and self-awareness as emergent properties \\u2022 Where does consciousness go during general anaesthesia? After death? \\u2022 Star Trek TNG episode 138 \\u201cShip in a Bottle\\u201d: a VR inside a VR that is indistinguishable from reality \\u2022 Are we living in a simulation that itself is inside a simulation? \\u2022 Does Deep Blue know that it beat the great Gary Kasparov in chess? \\u2022 Does Watson know that it beat the great Ken Jennings in Jeopardy!? \\u2022 Is Data on Star Trek sentient, conscious, and with feelings? \\u2022 Can AI systems be conscious? \\u2022 free will, determinism, compatibilism, and panpsychism.

Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he co-directs of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. He is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, and of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme: From Sensation and Perception to Awareness. Dr. Seth is Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness (Oxford University Press) and he sits on the Editorial Board of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B and on the Advisory Committee for 1907 Research and for Chile\\u2019s Congreso Futuro. His new book is Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.