Consciousness (DVD) (with Hameroff, etc.) Dinner with Andre Times Twelve

If you liked "Dinner with Andre," then wait for the weekend, order in some Chinese and kill some very meaningfully spent time. The "cast" is uneven - which makes for nice juxtapositions. My favorites: Hammeroff, Ramachandran and the grad student in her mid-twenties (can't remember her name right off the bat). Hammeroff - an intellectual "tank." Ramachandran - succinct. The grad student - probably a mirror image of a developmental state that most who'll watch this DVD set has gone through - the stage of intense intellectual seeking and idealistically contagious impatience for a paradigm shift. The interviewer models a marvelously authentic immersion in the speaker's subject matter while at the same time maintaining - in some kind of meta-cognitive parallel - the capacity for tactfully challenging questions. This was fun to watch: instructional, informative, panoramic, intriguing and pregnant with implications. Time well spent!