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His book profiles 20 world-changing University of Sydney researchers. Yet, one of the most remarkable stories Maxwell Bennett AO tells in The Search for Knowledge and Understanding, is his own.
Bennett is one of the most qualified people in the world to answer that question (or at least understand it and investigate its tremendous complexity), and his view is clear. “We cannot attribute to a part of the brain that which we human beings do – the thinking, deciding, admiring, singing. We human beings do these things, not the brain.”
The conscious human
He laid out these ideas and many more, in a bold, erudite and landmark book Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, written with British philosopher, Peter Hacker: though the book’s conclusions haven’t been universally embraced...
Remembering inspirational colleagues
Here are three stories of world-changing researchers from the University of Sydney, as remembered by Max Bennett and profiled in his book The Search for Knowledge and Understanding.
Recommended Reading
Source: News - The University of Sydney
