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Was Schubert a musical brain?

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Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education
Prof. Raymond Tallis deepens his argument against the idea that we are our brains. He believes there is a distinction in kind between humans and other animals. This he illustrates by appeal to the differences between the music of Schubert and the singing

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Episode Information

Series
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education
People
Raymond Tallis
Keywords
philosophy
mind
Tallis
brain
neurophysiology
personhood
culture
neuromania
mind-body problem
music
birdsong
Department: Department for Continuing Education
Date Added: 07/05/2014
Duration: 00:48:22

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