author, 'The Man Who Wasn't There'
Award-winning science journalist and author of The Man Who Wasn’t There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self
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Anil Ananthaswamy
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FROM Anil Ananthaswamy
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
'The Man Who Wasn’t There' We record this show at KCRW’s studio in Santa Monica, sitting in the chair in Studio Three. Or at least we think we do. Perhaps it’s not so simple. Because all of that depends on our sense of self, which is, neurologically speaking, much more malleable than you might think.
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