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I still haven't had a chance to listen to this (I love podcasts but they just take too much time) but it's worth saving for a snowy day, I think. From the summary: "Professor VS Ramachandaran, a noted neuroscientist and the Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (San Diego). The Prof. talks about how the 'activity of the 100 billion little wisps of protoplasm - the neurons in your brain - give rise to all the richness of our conscious experience, including the redness of red, the painfulness of pain or the exquisite flavour of Marmite or Vindaloo.'"

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