To the Best of Our Knowledge

PROMO       2/11/2007    "Consciousness"
*Daniel Tammet has an amazing mind.  He can recite from memory 22
thousand digits of the number pi.  He can learn a foreign language in a
week.  But he has trouble with simple directions, like telling the
difference between left and right, and he's had to teach himself to
laugh at jokes.  Tammet is an autistic savant, and sees the world in a
very different way.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll
explore the mystery of consciousness.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Consciousness"

0:00 - 18:45        SEGMENT 1: (18:45)
            Steve Paulson prepared this report on the state of
            thinking about consciousness. We hear from Artificial
            Intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky, physicist Roger
            Penrose, philosopher Daniel Dennett, New Age guru Deepak
            Chopra, and many more. 
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

18:46 - 19:15  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

19:16 - 38:44       SEGMENT 2: (19:29)
            Louann Brizendine is a neuro-psychiatrist and the author
            of "The Female Brain."  She tell Jim Fleming that male
            brains are fueled by testosterone and female brains are
            fueled by estrogen and that they are chemically and
            physically different from each other. Also, Alan Wallace
            is an ex-Buddhist monk who runs the Santa Barbara
            Institute for Consciousness Studies, and is the author of
            "Contemplative Science."  He tells Steve Paulson that the
            long tradition of rigorous investigation of the mind
            undertaken by Buddhism has a lot to teach Western
            science. Check our website - ttbook.org - for a
            transcript of Steve's interview that ran in Salon
            magazine.   
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

38:45 - 39:14       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

39:15 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (13:45)
            Daniel Tammet is an autistic Savant and the author of
            "Born on a Blue Day." He loves numbers, can do
            calculations in his head into the millions, and can
            recite pi to more than 22,000 digits.  But he has trouble
            telling right from left and can't look people in the eye. 
            Tennet talks with Anne Strainchamps about life on the
            Autistic Spectrum and how he sees numbers. 
                         
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo
            
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