Seth's position — that perceiving consciousness in AI is a projection, not a detection — is not new within neuroscience. What changed is the venue. TED's main stage does not produce peer review; it produces consensus signals. When a scientist delivers a "definitive answer" to whether AI will ever gain consciousness on that platform, the framing travels further than the argument. The Seth talk, now distributed through the TED Talks Daily podcast feed and platforms including and , reaches audiences who will not read the underlying neuroscience literature. That…