Why is it that great works of art seem to have a universal appeal, transcending cultural and geographic boundaries? V.S. Ramachandran, director of UCSD's Center for Brain and Cognition has studied how the brain perceives works of art and thinks he may know the answer to this intriguing question.
This is Part 1 of 8.
"The Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding"
Translation by Roderick T. Long
Music and vocals by Paul L. Fine
The song can be downloaded here: http://www.auburn.ed u/academic/liberal_a rts/philosophy/kant. htm
Patricia Churchland gives a talk for the UCSD 40/40 Vision Lecture Series in which she discusses the progress that has been made in neurophilosophy in the past four decades, and then makes predictions as to what the field will bring in the next four.
This is part 1 of 6.
Why is it that great works of art seem to have a universal appeal, transcending cultural and geographic boundaries? V.S. Ramachandran, director of UCSD's Center for Brain and Cognition has studied how the brain perceives works of art and thinks he may know the answer to this intriguing question.
This is Part 3 of 8.
Patricia Churchland gives a talk for the UCSD 40/40 Vision Lecture Series in which she discusses the progress that has been made in neurophilosophy in the past four decades, and then makes predictions as to what the field will bring in the next four.
This is part 2 of 6.
Why is it that great works of art seem to have a universal appeal, transcending cultural and geographic boundaries? V.S. Ramachandran, director of UCSD's Center for Brain and Cognition has studied how the brain perceives works of art and thinks he may know the answer to this intriguing question.
This is Part 8 of 8.
Patricia Churchland gives a talk for the UCSD 40/40 Vision Lecture Series in which she discusses the progress that has been made in neurophilosophy in the past four decades, and then makes predictions as to what the field will bring in the next four.
This is part 3 of 6.
Patricia Churchland discuses recent advancements in neuroethics, and claims that in actuality scientists don't engage in inductive reasoning, but actually infer their conclusions to the best explanation possible in the context of strong cultural and scienific assumptions.
This is part 1 of 4.
Daniel Dennett was invited to the 2006 meeting of the "Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival" conference, but just a week before it started he suffered a heart attack. After a few days of recovery he wrote a letter to be read at the conference. This is the video of Paul Churchland reading that letter.
My apologies for the audio being slightly off.
![Part 1-V.S. Ramachandran \"Neurology and the Passion for Art\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/qlAr1xy5dII/2.jpg "Part 1-V.S. Ramachandran \\"Neurology and the Passion for Art\\"")
![Part 3-V.S. Ramachandran \"Neurology and the Passion for Art\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/ismkRCnYEQ4/2.jpg "Part 3-V.S. Ramachandran \\"Neurology and the Passion for Art\\"")
![Part 8-V.S. Ramachandran \"Neurology and the Passion for Art\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/kmxmxe-LDGY/2.jpg "Part 8-V.S. Ramachandran \\"Neurology and the Passion for Art\\"")
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