Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Mind Talk: The Brain's New Story

Mind Talk: The Brain’s New Story

What is the difference between the mind and the brain? Are they separable? Are they even quantifiable? And where does the soul fit in? In this thought-provoking program, experts including Oxford mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, cognitive scientist Dr. Daniel Dennett, and cyber-age techno-visionary Jaron Lanier contemplate the social and moral impact of brain research and questions such as how matter developed consciousness, whether computers can model human abilities, how free "free will" really is, and where legal responsibility for actions begins and ends. This intriguing program is a vital resource in the ongoing challenge to understand that which makes human beings truly human. A Bob Drake/Wendy Conquest Production. (59 minutes)

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Item#: BVL8554
Copyright date: ©1998
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-0637-3
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-3860-6


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