The February 9th episode of All in the Mind is an excellent interview of author Jonah Lehrer about his book Proust was a Neuroscientist. In the interview Lehrer reflects on the danger of viewing science as the sole source of discovery, but he also talks a little about several of the people explored in his book. His basic premise is that artists from various fields often intuitively grasped truths that are now being revealed by neuroscience. One example is the insights that Proust had about memory.
Proust was a Neuroscientist is a valuable contribution to the current exploration of the relevance of neuroscience to everyday life. It can be easily read in a few sittings or savored one artist at a time.
Natasha Mitchell is an excellent interviewer because she always asks interesting and probing questions. (I think of her as the Australian Terry Gross.). All in the Mind is an excellent compliment to the Brain Science Podcast.
Mitchell has recently begun an All in the Mind blog and there is a new All in the Mind group on Facebook.
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Hi! I gave you a nod in my Darwin Day post. On Twitter you invited me to come and post a link here but I’m not sure how to do that. Anyhow, I’m very excited that my blog caught your eye. I try to be a thoughtful and informed undergrad in hopes of inspiring others of us to be so.
Cheers!
Thanks Undergrad,
To post a link in the Forum all you have to do is join the Forum at http://brainscienceforum.com
You can put the link in your post directly or you can use BBcode.
I’ll just put your Darwin’s Day Post right here:
http://undergradmind.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/happy-darwin-day/
(Be sure not to put a period at the end or the link doesn’t work.)