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Phantoms in the Brain
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5pm Sunday 1 June repeated 1pm Tuesday 3 June
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Current research on the brain should prepare us all for the unexpected and the surprising. Science can now offer empirical evidence for answering ancient philosophical questions about meaning and being.
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Synapses and the Self |
5pm Sunday 8 June repeated 1pm Tuesday 10 June
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How does the activity of the 100 billion little wisps of protoplasm - the neurons in your brain - give rise to all the richness of our conscious experience...?
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The Artful Brain
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5pm Sunday 15 June repeated 1pm Tuesday 17 June
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There are 30 visual areas in the human brain that use a variety of short cuts or heuristics to perceive the world. The artist can tap into this circuitry to more optimally excite these areas using certain contrived patterns, more than could be done by using 'natural' looking pictures.
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Purple Numbers and Sharp Cheese
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5pm Sunday 22 June repeated 1pm Tuesday 24 June
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Synesthaesia - the mingling of the senses was first studied by Francis Galton and has usually been regarded as an anomaly or even as bogus...Professor Ramachandran proposes a neural mechanism in the brain involving cross activation between brain maps.
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Neuroscience - the New Philosophy
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5pm Sunday 29 June repeated 1pm Tuesday 1 July
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Such rapid strides have been made in neuroscience in the last decade that there is talk of new disciplines such as neuroaesthetics, neuroethics, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroepistemology - even neurotheology.
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This year's Reith Lectures are given by 
