The twin sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are. Now these sciences are coming together and in the process have revealed some surprising and uncomfortable truths about what really shapes our thoughts, feelings and desires. This is the final episode to this BBC documentary series. (59 min)
really excellent program (with no computer animations!). He does a great job at the end of summing up how we are a complex mix of all the various theories examined through history. Some of us are guided more by emotions and some of us more by reason. It’s my hope that we can continue our evolution towards a more rational world!
I wonder if you are familiar with the series “Scientific American Frontiers” hosted by Alan Alda? Its kind of a US version of this program. There is one episode in particular that I was reminded of where they compare human to animal intelligence by doing simple experiments with animals and young children.
they have a great archive of videos here, but doesnt look like they can be embedded…
http://www.pbs.org/saf/previous.htm
Yeah, they have embeddable episodes of Scientific American Frontiers on YouTube I think. I wanna like the show but it just doesn’t do it me. Sorry about that – not on this channel…:~)
Thanks for the link though.
no prob… I guess I have always been a big fan of Alan Alda and so thats another level that I can like it on. When I was scanning through trying to find the episode I mentioned right after watching your video I kind of got the same feeling that they arent really in the same league production wise…