He's had patients with absent limbs that ache, others convinced that they are dead or that their parents are imposters, and yet others who vividly sense numbers as colours or flavours. Now he's turned his attention to perhaps the wiliest question of all: What is Art? Acclaimed neuroscientist Professor V.S Ramachandran is celebrated as one of the most creative and colourful communicators about the brain and its discontents. Author of the Phantoms in the Brain, and now, A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, the passionate Rama joins Natasha Mitchell this week.

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