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'A View from My Corpse' |
Raymond Tallis gives a TORCH bite-size talk at the Ashmolean Museum's DEADFriday event |
Raymond Tallis |
24 Nov 2015 |
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Was Schubert a musical brain? |
Prof. Raymond Tallis deepens his argument against the idea that we are our brains. He believes there is a distinction in kind between humans and other animals. This he illustrates by appeal to the differences between the music of Schubert and the singing |
Raymond Tallis |
07 May 2014 |
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Spiders, yes, but why cats? |
Prof.Iain McGilchrist illustrates his argument by appeal to a number of paintings done by psychotic patients. He points to various commonalities between these paintings and speculates on the ways in which they support claims about the two hemispheres and |
Iain McGilchrist |
07 May 2014 |
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Am I my mind? |
Prof. Iain McGilchrist, whilst agreeing with Tallis that we are not our brains argues that we can learn a great deal about our culture by learning more about our brain. In particular we should recognise we have two hemispheres, each with a different funct |
Iain McGilchrist |
07 May 2014 |
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Am I my brain? |
Prof. Raymond Tallis argues that extraordinary claims have been made for neurophysiology. For example it has been said that a person is nothing but his or her brain. Professor Raymond Tallis rejects this ‘neuromania’. He shows why it is attractive, but al |
Raymond Tallis |
07 May 2014 |
