Podcast #6: The First Idea

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Episode 6 of the Brain Science Podcast is a discussion of The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, And Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans, by Stanley I Greenspan, MD and Stuart G Shanker, D. PHIL.

I wanted to talk about emotion, but I generally base the Brain Science [...]

Consciousness: a brief introduction to Philosophy of Mind (BSP 5)

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Until the last few decades the question of consciousness fascinated philosophers, but was considered off-limits to science, but the discoveries of the last few decades have brought consciousness into the realm of neuroscience. Scientists such as Nobel Prize Winner, Francis Crick have proposed that the brain has “neural correlates of consciousness.” [...]

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