Anil Seth on Private Passions with Michael Berkeley 4th November 2018
It’s the size and shape of a cauliflower, and weighs about 3 lbs. And yet the average human brain has so many intricate and complex connections that if you counted one connection every second it would take you more than three million years.
Professor Anil Seth has devoted his career to trying to understand the brain, puzzling over the mystery of consciousness itself. He’s Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the Sackler Centre at the University of Sussex, and the author of a popular book, “The 30-second Brain”. In Private Passions, he muses on how our consciousness of the world, and of ourselves, is “one of the big central mysteries of life”. And it’s a mystery we face every day – when we fall asleep and when we wake up. In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Anil Seth explores the concept of free will (he doesn’t believe in it); why music evokes such strong memories; and how meditation changes the structure of the brain.
Music choices include Chopin, Bach, Nina Simone, and an ancient Hindi mantra.
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
-
4:10:55
Fresh and Fit
10 hours agoFormer Fed Reacts To Trump Assassination Attempt
164K307 -
6:41:17
SNEAKO
13 hours agoTrump won
310K193 -
10:18:01
Akademiks
19 hours agoDonald Trump Shot at during Pennsylvania Speech?
410K131 -
8:40:58
Drew Hernandez
13 hours agoEMERGENCY BROADCAST: TRUMP ASSASSNATION ATTEMPT
431K389 -
1:10:49
Bright Insight
11 hours agoThe ATTEMPT on Donald Trump & Global Corruption. Saturday Night Livestream
138K156 -
3:12:00
The Charlie Kirk Show
14 hours agoTRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
1.2M2.68K -
8:07:29
Right Side Broadcasting Network
5 days agoBREAKING: ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON PRESIDENT TRUMP AT BUTLER, P.A. RALLY- 7/13/24
1.06M602 -
2:26:41
Benny Johnson
13 hours ago🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOT 🚨 Trump Survives Assassination Attempt, Bleeding From Face | LIVE UPDATES
390K1.36K -
2:19:02
The Quartering
13 hours agoTRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT JUST HAPPENED
306K407 -
2:30:48
Jewels Jones Live ®
1 day agoJill Biden - Babysitter From Hell! | A Political Rendezvous - Ep. 83
365K42