This monologue was one of many featured in the Mateel Community Center & Random Players 2007 Monologue Project: MORE TRUE LIES AND CONFESSIONS Produced by Susan Alexander & Jenny Edwards. Andy Barnett Directed John’s piece with Video by Bruce Edwards & Chet Patak – Post Production by Shenandoah Productions. For more on [Continue]

I quote Steiner: “The question: “How do I get information about that tree ten feet away from me?” is utterly misleading.It springs from the view that the boundaries of my body are absolute barriers, through which information about things filters into me. The forces which are at work inside my body are the same as [Continue]

Though, I think you will get my point. -Brain damage does not create a new person, the differences between phineas before and phineas after the accident are accidental, not essential -The car and driver analogy is meant to illustrate where there can be two-way causal relationships between two separate entities. But even more broadly, I [Continue]

The first in a series of Gifford Lectures by Professor Michael Gazzaniga. Recorded 12 October, 2009 at the Playfair Library Hall, the University of Edinburgh. What do we need to know about the human brain in order to discuss the weighty questions of free will, mental causation, morals, ethics, and the law? To understand anything [Continue]