A brief yet intriguing description of a talk on pointing, by the ever versatile neuroscientist and philosopher Ray Tallis at the recent Hay Literary Festival.A spellbinding hour with philosopher and self-confessed "many-layered anorak" Raymond Tallis on the subject of pointing. Yes, sticking your finger in the air and directing it at an object. It is, he argued, one of the attributes that mark us
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June 3, 2010
Pointing the finger
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November 13, 2009
Taking the neurotrash out
Neuroscientist Raymond Tallis has a barn-storming and somewhat bad tempered article in The New Humanist where he rails against the increasing tendency to explain everything from beauty to crime in terms of brain function.He begins by criticising how neuroscience is now appearing as a handy 'neuro-' prefix to more and more areas of human society, leading to the likes of "neuro-jurisprudence, neuro
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