Fri, 5 June 2009  Brain Science Podcast #58 is an interview with the author of Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness. Philosopher Alva Noe (University of California-Berkeley) has devoted his career to the study of cognitive neuroscience. In this interview we explore why he believes that the mind is MORE than the brain.Episode show notes, links, and a full transcript of the interview are available at http://brainsciencepodcast.com/. You can send Dr. Campbell email at gincampbell at mac.com or join the Discussion Forum at http://brainscienceforum.com/. Comments[5] |
This is a fascinating topic but I'm very frustrated with Dr. Noe's sound level. I assume you don't upload these podcasts so that people who want to hear them have to listen in a monk's cloister or something. Maybe I need to invest in some of those sound-canceling headphones. I enjoy the show very much when I can hear it. Thanks.
I agree that Dr Noë was difficult to hear. Unfortunately my attempts to bring his level up were only partially successful.
posted by: Ginger Campbell, MD on Sun, 6/28 03:33 PM EDT
I agree about the sound level, but the content was not diminished by this mere technicality.
I am so happy that I discovered these podcasts. I am both an artist and nurse who is fascinated by the brain. I have a condition which demonstrates neuroplasticity.
I am so happy that I discovered these podcasts. I am both an artist and nurse who is fascinated by the brain. I have a condition which demonstrates neuroplasticity.
For most of this podcast, Noe seemed to me like a BS artist countering the "cognitive modeling" paradigm (that I basically accept) with vague sophistry, but in the end, I finally got it when he said something like "why should the model 'reality' when reality is always out there?".
This (paraphrased) statement was an "aha" moment for me, but I'm still not sure I buy it, because I have sometimes vividly visual dreams, and the images aren't simply recollections of things I've seen recently, so I must have some capacity to model visually.
This (paraphrased) statement was an "aha" moment for me, but I'm still not sure I buy it, because I have sometimes vividly visual dreams, and the images aren't simply recollections of things I've seen recently, so I must have some capacity to model visually.
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