The Thing About Being an Individual: John Baker at TEDxMoorparkCollege

Recorded April 18, 2014

We're not just us -- we're you and I. But is my "me" just like your "you" -- or could you be something different? Why is it unavoidable to be an individual, and what are we going to do about it?

John Baker is Professor of Anthropology at Moorpark College. His research interests focus on the ways in which the biological capabilities that enable human consciousness are given expression within different cultures. He is a former president of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, and is currently a co-editor of Time & Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture. Baker is co-author (together with Michael Winkelman) of Supernatural as Natural: A Biocultural Approach to Religion.

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