The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation's first director-general.
The subect of this year's lecture series is The Emerging Mind by Professor Vilayanur S Ramachandran.
Here are links to the 5 lectures in the series:
Lecture 1: Phantoms in the Brain
Lecture 2: Synapses and the Self
Lecture 3: The Artful Brain
Lecture 4: Purple Numbers and Sharp Cheese
Lecture 5: Neuroscience - the New Philosophy
Here is the posting on kuro5hin that enligtened me of the existence of these lectures.
