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Studs discusses dreams, consciousness and computers with psychologist, computer scientist, and author Dr. Christopher Evans. Topics of conversation include the need for humans to dream, contemporary research on sleep and rest, and computer technology. Dr. Evans draws analogies between the behavior of the sleeping and dreaming human brain and the functions of modern computers.
Author, physician, and inventor Edward de Bono discusses his book “The Five-Day Course in Thinking,” and touches on ideas like lateral thinking and vertical thinking. Includes an interview with Peter Lyon.
Dr. Aviva Weissman discusses the emergence of family planning services in England and the importance of women having access to contraception and other services. Weissman discusses her experience with families who have benefitted from the services of Planned Parenthood.
In 1967, Clair Culhane worked as a hospital administrator at a tuberculosis hospital near Saigon, Vietnam. She discusses what she observed at the hospital and her anti-war work when she returned home.
Psychologist, Holocaust survivor and author Bruno Bettelheim discusses his imprisonment in Dachua and how it influenced his view on life with the effect of Freud and Kant’s philosophy. Bettelheim was known as an early adopter on the topic of autism.