The comedian on his odyssey into the human brain,why he never wants to play a stadium again – and the reason he turned down his comedy hero Hi Rob. So why are you doing a show on the brain?
Firstly, there’s lots of really exciting progress in brain science now. But at the same time, and the ways in which it’s being interpreted in the pop science books is trying to force humans into a small mechanical box,and it’s quite ominous. Ever since Charlie Chaplin fell into the cogs in the assembly line in contemporary Times, there has been comedy approximately humans refusing to be put in a mechanical box. So the show celebrates the science but deplores the interpretations.
What’s The Brain Show approximately? [br]It’s approximately how, and after being a volunteer subject in a brain-imaging experiment,I emerged with more questions than answers, such as: “Are we our brains?” whether there are more connections in our brains than atoms in the universe, and then why are we spending €1bn mapping the brain in the European brain-mapping project? It’s unmappable,proper? My quest to find answers to these questions takes me and the audience from Alan Turing emerging white as a sheet from a Blackpool fortune-teller’s tent, to Isaac Newton having a complete meltdown at Sturbridge county just.
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Source: theguardian.com