Natasha Mitchell
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24,986 appearances
297 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Jul 2018
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Conditions like Alzheimer's, epilepsy, or a stroke can damage the hippocampus, and more on that later.
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But the research team's ultimate goal is
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Yeah, y the bioethicist Arthur Kaplan, who's fairly optimistic about uh the brain revolution, he suggests that we're a little puritanical about the idea of mucking with our heads.
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And I mean this taps into this concern that you've expressed.
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So this is this notion of the extended mind that uh some philosophers are are keen to propagate.
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That that the mind is not encapsulated in our brain, not even within our body, but it is also so much integrated into our environment and our our interactions.
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Carl Craver mentioned philosopher Andy Clark and Clark would have to have been another one of my favourite interviews over the last decade on All in the Mind.
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In two thousand and three, we were talking about his book Natural Born Cyborgs.
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You're one, by the way.
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So am I.
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Consider this.
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The human skin is an artificial boundary.
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The world wanders into it and the self wanders out of it.
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Traffic is two-way and constant.
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Those are the words from Bernard Wolfe's classic 1952 book Limbo, one of the great dystopian novels of our time.
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In Wolf's Story, set in 1990, neurosurgeon Dr.
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Martin lives in a world where, amongst other strange goings on,
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Men called queer limbs wander the landscape, their arms and legs are amputated, and replaced by atomic powered plastic prostheses.
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Well, it's not as far-fetched a scenario as you might think.
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Well let's look at that tantalizing argument that you present that in fact this posthuman future that's suggested by the cyborg
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