Neurologist Oliver Sacks identifies what we still don't know about the human brain.<br /><br />Check out the rest of Oliver Sacks' interview at http://bigthink.com/oliversacks<br /><br />Question: If you could have one question answered about the human brain, what would it be? <br />Oliver Sacks: How it works? <br />I would like to know how the 100 billion neurons in the incessant interactions are able to create this wonderful thing we call thought, feeling, language, humanity, individuality, consciousness. <br />This is the ultimate brain/mind questions. That's the ultimate question which neurologists; whether it could be answered even in principle, I don't know <br />I think we're getting closer in some ways. And I hope I live long enough to get some feeling of the answer there. <br />Recorded on: Sep 4, 2008 <br /> <br /><br />Question: If you could have one question answered about the human brain, what would it be? <br />Oliver Sacks: How it works? <br />I would like to know how the 100 billion neurons in the incessant interactions are able to create this wonderful thing we call thought, feeling, language, humanity, individuality, consciousness. <br />This is the ultimate brain/mind questions. That's the ultimate question which neurologists; whether it could be answered even in principle, I don't know <br />I think we're getting closer in some ways. And I hope I live long enough to get some feeling of the answer there. <br />Recorded on: Sep 4, 2008
