VS Ramachandran, Neuroscientist

How close is science to unlocking the secrets inside our heads? The human brain is an awe inspiringly complex organ - it generates in us a consciousness, a sense of self, shared with no other creature on the planet. But how?

Neuroscientist VS Ramachandran's pioneering work offers practical help to those with neurological disorders and a wider philosophical challenge to all of us - do we really want to know what makes us who we think we are? Stephen Sackur talks to VS Ramachandran.