We’re sorry to say that Dr. Ed Connor, Director of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, will not be able to join us for tomorrow’s Brain & Culture panel discussion (1pm at MAC Gallery). But we’re pleased to announce that one of the more compelling and imaginative researchers in brain science will be taking his place.
Michael Graziano is a scientist and novelist. He was born in Connecticut and grew up partly on a farm in upstate New York. He is now a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University who has become internationally known for fundamental discoveries about sensory-motor coordination.
In addition to numerous articles on the functioning of the brain, Dr. Graziano has published five novels, including The Love Song of Monkey and The Divine Farce. His novels often take the form of parables or metaphors—fairy tales for the modern adult.
He also publishes scientific books on the brain, most recently God Soul Mind Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Reflections on the Spirit World, which explores the controversial relationship between science and religion, first dismissing the “science versus religion” debate as outdated. The cutting-edge field of social neuroscience explains how our perceptions of our own consciousness, of 
other minds, and of spirits and gods depend on machinery in the brain that evolved to make us socially intelligent animals. In God Soul Mind Brain, Graziano discusses his and others’ findings in this twenty-year-old science and the implications for human spirituality and religion.
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