As central banks. Hello welcome to vision or is me Sophie Shevardnadze till recently the concept consciousness lay at a confluence of philosophy really but my guest today offers a clinical view on it dr steven law is one of the worlds leading in the new consciousness and hes with me today. Professor Stephen Lewis belgian neurologist recognized worldwide as a leading Clinical Research in the field of neurology of consciousness and list topics so glad that youre with us today. Right someone at jump rating whistle you never speech knocked unconscious right are lost consciousness but speed speaking scientifically can we actually match your lost consciousness i mean its. Someone who has been knocked out by mike tyson for instance really unconscious at that moment. Well i dont know what it is like to be knocked out by mike tyson its once your question about consciousness and when we lose it i think the historical. Soucy is that we have considered consciousness as all or nothing you read or n
Think the historical. Soci is that we have. Consciousness as all or nothing you read or not unconscious or come of those or your conscious and this black and white decision is. Probably wrong with others so thats consciousness. And losses of countries this can be very gradual and i think this is this is very important historically when i started this research in the ninetys we had its own money. And there was. What we. Call and this is a stage of stage where people looked away but were. Basically just waiting to die now we know that many patients we talk to are conscious are so sensitive. And so this is very important. Or less consciousness is not all or nothing ok i think that this talk will be about different gradations of how much will lose conscience and what a conscious really is in different states for instance some people write they report saying all kinds of wild things during a near death experience which would call an unconscious state of mind i know that some Scientists Say
Director brennan, thank you for sitting down with me today. Your book provides really interesting background and detail, not just about your career and on intelligence debates of the past but very much the news of our current days. Its four years later, were style fighting about russian interference in 2016. The republican and democrats are still debating whether the investigations were handled properly four years ago, whether you and Intelligence Leaders of 2016 drew the right conclusions about russian action. Your book opens with a scene after the election before the inauguration, youre briefing first congressional leaders and then go to new york to brief the trump and his team. A sharp partisan divide when you brief congress. Describe that and talk pout whether that was inevitable given the politics of the moment or could something have been done differently . Well, julien, i was asked to brief the gang of eight when we learned about what the russias were doing, the full extent of i
Support. Without your support we wouldnt be where you are. The fiscal story weve been open for two weeks so wear a mask and stop by if youre in the area. Tonight, were excited to have with us Julian Zelizer celebrating the release of his book burning down the house. A professor of history and Public Affairs of Princeton University and cnn political analyst. Here is his most recent book. A haltline coshopped by the plymouth, president john and the battle for the best look. He had about with the guing guggenheim mountains and of america. Hell be joined by kevin cruz. Suburban history in the 20th Century America so just on conflicts of rights, race and religion, he is particularly interested in segregation and the Civil Rights Movement as well as the rights in the region, excuse me, provides the religious national and the making of modern. His book crease making one nation under god and Christian America and recently published. The president was honored as one of americas top young innova
Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. Host how did you come up with the name . Guest i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking firstperson talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the, how are you doing . That