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About me17 year old student wishing to become a Neurologist. Not much to basically say, I love science, reason, writing and a good drink.
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I have read about 50% of them in their entirety, and the rest I dip into from time to time. It spans several book cases and ranges from science to philosophy. novels to encyclopedias.
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Good luck with the neurology they say it is the last frontier in science exploring consciousness have you read Grof's books they make real interesting reading so does the books of Sheldrake. I am not convinced that Consciousness arises in the brain and I have had some interesting discussion with scientists working in the field. The beauty of the net is that it opens them up to the layman the ivory towers are slowly coming down.
What we today deem to be paranormal will be explained by science and it will open up a whole new way of looking and interacting in the world.
This talk by American Physicist Tom Campbell is well worth listening to!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akgCb85PG...
And this programme from radio four explores your area of interest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inou...
Here is the preamble to wet your appetite please tell all your friends about this programme it is deserving of a bigger audience.
NEUROSCIENCE
In the mid-19th century a doctor had a patient who had suffered a stroke. The patient was unable to speak save for one word. The word was ‘Tan’ which became his name. When Tan died, the doctor discovered damage to the left side of his brain and concluded that the ability to speak was housed there.
This is how neuroscience used to work – by examining the dead or investigating the damaged – but now things have changed. Imaging machines and other technologies enable us to see the active brain in everyday life, to observe the activation of its cells and the mass firing of its neuron batteries.
But what picture of the brain has emerged, how has our understanding of it changed and what are the implications for understanding that most mysterious and significant of all phenomena – the human mind?
Contributors
Martin Conway, Professor of Psychology at the University of Leeds
Gemma Calvert, Professor of Applied Neuroimaging at WMG, University of Warwick
David Papineau, Professor of Philosophy of Science at King’s College London
posted by Arten60 at 6:31 am (EST) on Jul 30, 2009