Click play to listen. Recorded on November 6, 2010.
What is the mind, and how does it relate to the physical body? This question has fascinated humans for ages, both before and after 17th-century philosopher René Descartes articulated mind-body dualism. In our time, our growing scientific understanding of the brain and its functions has only compounded the question. Philosopher, novelist, and MacArthur fellow Rebecca Goldstein considers these questions through the protagonist of her novel The Mind-Body Problem. In this program, Goldstein touches on whether the mind is more than the brain, how our definition of consciousness might distinguish us from animals, and much more, helping us wrestle with eternal questions about our mental and physical selves.
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