Scientists have just recently begun to understand how the human brain works. Wilder Penfield, whose work has been at the vanguard of such study, discusses the current level of knowledge about the brain in this book and questions to what degree new results explain how the mind works. He gives the common reader a peek of interesting findings that are typically only available to a few scientists.

He comments, ” “Throughout my professional career, I, like many others, have battled to demonstrate that the brain accounts for the mind. But perhaps the moment has come to assess the data as it currently stands and raise the question… Can what we currently know about the brain explain the mind?”

He emphasizes that the essential question is whether man’s being is determined solely by his body or by intellect and body as independent aspects. Before offering a solution, he describes his experience as a neurosurgeon and scientist examining the brain in awake patients.

Originally released in 1975.

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