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The Mind v the Brain

The Mind v the Brain

FromThe Infinite Monkey Cage


The Mind v the Brain

FromThe Infinite Monkey Cage

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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Aug 7, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The Mind V The Brain.

It's one of the hardest problems in neuroscience. How do the chemical processes and electric signals produced by our brains result in the complex and varied experiences and sense of self that we might describe as our mind? Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by comedian Katy Brand, and neuroscientists Professor Uta Frith and Professor Sophie Scott to ask whether the mind is simply a product of the biology of our brain, or is there more to it than that? Can you have a brain without a mind, and is the mind simply an unexpected consequence, an emergent property, of our highly evolved and sophisticated brain. They'll also be tackling the question of free will, and whether we really have any, and if you could in theory simulate a fully working brain, with all its signals and complexity, would a mind naturally emerge?

Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
Released:
Aug 7, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes. With Brian Cox and Robin Ince.