Professor Bruce Hood has held positions at MIT and Harvard, and is now the director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre. In December, he gave the Royal Institution Christmas lectures 2011.
Describing himself as a “magpie” who likes to be involved in several projects at once, Hood is about to publish a new book about what it means to be human that he hopes will be controversial. “I’m going to argue that there is no self,” he says. “Or at least the self we think there is, is one which is dependent upon everything around us.”
In this video interview with Elements, the psychologist tells us a little more about his research and why he’d like to build a human being from scratch.
Music courtesy of Royalty Free Music. Brain jelly image courtesy of skpy.
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