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The Reith Lectures 1976

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Mechanics of the Mind
Six talks by Dr Colin Blake more, Fellow of Downing College, and Royal Society Locke Research Fellow at Cambridge University.
1: The Divinest Part of Us
In his opening lecture Dr Blakemore chronicles the development of man's ideas on the location and function of the mind. He argues that it was Descartes's view of brain and soul as being distinct entities that allowed ,/ men, even devout men, to study the work- ings of the brain without fear of treading in the footsteps of God.

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