SFGate: “Tom Wolfe on how speech made us human”
Written on March 16, 2008
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle (3/16/08) has an interview with Tom Wolfe, discussing “surprisingly trendy neuroscience.” According to the article Wolfe is working on a book on the topic, to be called The Human Beast.
Wolfe’s 1996 essay “Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died,” referred to in the article, is reprinted here.
Wolfe’s 2006 Jefferson Lecture is “The Human Beast.”
Jose Delgado’s “Physical Control of the Mind,” recommended by Wolfe, is available online here
Filed in: cognitive science,culture,mind.
