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HARDtalk: VS Ramachandran, Neuroscientist

27/04/2011

VS Ramachandran, Neuroscientist

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, VS Ramachandran, Neuroscientist

Stephen Sackur talks to neuroscientist VS Ramachandran.

Stephen Sackur talks to neuroscientist VS Ramachandran. Do we really want to know what makes us who we think we are?

How close is science to unlocking the secrets inside our heads? The human brain is an awe inspiringly complex organ - it generates in us a consciousness, a sense of self, shared with no other creature on the planet. But how? 

Neuroscientist VS Ramachandran's pioneering work offers practical help to those with neurological disorders and a wider philosophical challenge to all of us - do we really want to know what makes us who we think we are? Stephen Sackur talks to VS Ramachandran.

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