Title
|
Subject
|
Author
|
Synopsis
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| Birth of a Brainwave |
Consciousness |
Jerome Burne |
You don't believe in ESP? Then maybe your
mind's taken a quantum leap. |
| Chaos Frees the
Universe |
Physics |
Paul Davies |
Chaos seems to provide a bridge between the
deterministic laws of physics and the laws of chance, implying that the Universe
is genuinely creative and that the notion of free will is real. |
| Cytoskeletons and
Microtubules |
Consciousness |
Roger Penrose |
The mathematics of small scale structures
of the brain. |
| Are Electrons
Conscious? |
Consciousness |
Danah Zohar |
In "The Quantum Self" Danah Zohar explains
the implications of Quantum Physics upon those things we think do not fall
into the category "conscious". |
| Physics on the brain |
Quantum
Consciousness |
Susan Blackmore |
A report on a strange interdisciplinary
discussion. |
| Make your mind up |
The Brain |
Mark Porter |
How do you get your head round the human brain?A
new BBC2 series seeks to analyse what might be called the planet's most amazing
piece of engineering. |
| Zombies Dolphins and
Blindsight |
Consciousness |
Alun Anderson, Bob Holmes and Liz Else |
Is consciousness the hardest of hard problems?
Is it all down to bits of wiring in the brain or quantum mechanics? And do
animals know more than we think? |
| Interview-Sue Greenfield
|
The Brain |
Andrew Duncan |
The first female director of the Royal Institution
and presenter of BBC2's Brain Story is a woman with a mission - to explain
the brain in a way that makes sense to everybody. |
| Testbeds |
Artificial
Intelligence |
Alun Lewis |
"Testbeds" - Transcript. |
| Behind the Brain |
Artificial
Intelligence |
Geoff Watts |
"Behind the Brain" - Transcript. |
| No place left for the soul to
hide? |
The Brain |
Jez Nelson |
"Questions and Answers" - Transcript. |
| What is this octopus
thinking? |
Animal Consciousness |
Garry Hamilton |
Are squid and octopuses really intelligent
or have researchers been seduced by their alien charms? |
| Who are you calling a sucker?
|
Animal Consciousness |
Gareth Huw Davies |
Not many of us would credit an octopus or
a squid with intelligence but,they can "talk" have a sense of humour - and
may even grow to become truly terrifying monsters. |
| Schools for Scandal |
Animal Consciousness |
Gareth Huw Davies |
Forget Flipper,Dolphins in the wild can be
dangerous bullies. |
| Interview-Oliver Sacks |
The Brain |
Andrew Duncan |
Migraine at the age of two and the beatings
at boarding school helped fashion the life of neurologist and bestselling
author Oliver Sacks. |
| ENM 9 |
Consciousness |
Roger Penrose |
Blindsight. |
| ENM 10 |
Consciousness |
Roger Penrose |
Physics of the Mind/Animal Consciousness/Quasi
Crystals. |
| Shadow 1 |
Consciousness |
Roger Penrose |
Consciousness and computation. |
| Can Minds do more than
Brains? |
Consciousness |
Hao Wang |
Gödel and Psychophysical Parallelism.
|
| Letting us in on the
act |
Consciousness |
Keith Devlin |
A review of The Large,the Small and the Human
Mind. |
| Brain Gain |
Intelligence |
Phyllida Brown |
Kids... they spend all their time playing
video games and texting each other. Where's it ever going to get them? |
| Freud |
Psychology |
Gyles Brandreth |
Everything you wanted to know about Freud
but were afraid to ask. |
| Ordinary Miracles |
Complexity theory |
Michael Brooks |
How do the complexities of the living world
arise from dumb matter? A speck of angelic assistance may be all that's needed.
|
| Tune In,Turn Off |
Autism |
Rita Carter |
You too could have seemingly superhuman mental
skills. All you have to do is switch off part of your brain. Sounds bizarre?
|
| What the blind see |
Blindness |
Oliver Sacks |
Do we control our brains or do our brains
control us? The author and neurologist, describes how the experiences of
blind people provide a fascinating insight into the nature of consciousness.
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