Will Eaves & Sophie Scott

The Neuromantics

Arts EN ↓ 26 episodes

Welcome to The Neuromantics – a monthly podcast for writers, psychologists, neuroscientists, poets, philosophers, comedians, musicians, and anyone interested in the exchange of ideas. The idea: a free-ranging conversation between Professor Sophie Scott (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/icn/people/sophie-scott and @sophiescott) of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL and Will Eaves about the brain, the mind, language, gesture, and communication as a fundamental property of science, literature and the arts. The format: roughly 30 mins of chat with musical stings in the punning style of the podca...

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Will Eaves & Sophie Scott

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The Neuromantics - Episode 1 08.03.2019 37:38

In Episode One, we think about processes in science and writing – the general picture of mistake-making – and revisit both Alan Newell‘s 1973 paper, “You Can’t Play Twenty Questions with Nature and Win” (read it here: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/85a0/96908670cd83cacfdede9e11f2df2dc41c9b.pdf) and U. A. Fanthorpe’s Christmas poem, “The Sheepdog” (2002).