A discussion between Oxford neuroscientist Colin Blakemore, award-winning novelist Joanna Kavenna and Rupert Sheldrake, hosted by David Malone, with a surprise exchange with Daniel Dennett, and Rupert's response to him, at 29 minutes. From iai, The Institute of Art and Ideas Philosophy for our times: cutting edge debates and talks from the world's leading thinkers.
From Descartes' view of the heart as a pump to Dennett's conception of the brain as a computer, our understanding of the body is permeated with mechanical metaphors. Is it an error to believe that the body is a machine? Should we find a new adventure in alternative metaphors of the body, or would this be a romantic illusion?
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IAI – The Institute of Art and Ideas
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- Beyond the Machine: Metaphors of the Body
- The Hidden Science of Spirituality
- Cycles of Wonder
- Making Humans
- Unnatural Laws - Are Eternal Laws an Illusion?
- The Limits of Science
- The Eureka Moment
- The Science Delusion
- Emperor's New Genes
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