Common Sense

The world we know through our perceptions is created by processes in our brains, and the validity of this imagined world depends crucially on the way that our sense organs and our brains work together to process these perceptions. The purpose of these programs is to describe how the sense organs act as biological instruments of detection, measurement, and analysis, and build for each of us our own perceptual world-incomplete, imperfect, but uniquely our own. The presenter of the Michael Faraday Lectures is Colin Blakemore, Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Magdalen College, Oxford.6-part series, 60 minutes each.