Each of the 19 chapters is an attempt to explain Anna's surgery and her answer back from you know earlier in this interview. So each of the chapters is kind of me. Ghost writing might be a slightly inaccurate term, but kind of ghost writing as if I'm collaborating with the person whose idea it is or whose theory it is. And so that story comes from Sydney Brenner who was a contemporary of Francis Crick and was one of the popularizer of C elegans the worm as a model for neuroscience.
How does the mind work? What makes us sad? What makes us laugh? Despite advances in neuroscience, the answers to these questions remain elusive. Neuroscientist Patrick House talks about these mysteries and about his book Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. House's insights illuminate not just what we know and don't know about our minds--he also helps us understand what it means to be human.