Paksworld

I mentioned here that I would be on the BBC World Radio’s “The Forum”…the taping of the panel discussion (with three people in London and me in Austin, TX) will be tomorrow (early morning, my time)  and will be broadcast this coming Sunday, May 20.   If your radio station doesn’t carry the program, you can access it as a podcast here:

From 01:00 Pacific Time on Saturday,  http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/forum .

The lineup has changed a bit–the other panelists will be David Rodin and Elizabeth Quintana.  Should be a very lively conversation.  I’ve read one of David Rodin’s books now, but did not know Elizabeth Quintana had replaced the other panelist until yesterday.    Luckily the BBC forwarded several of her publications for me to read.

One interesting discovery has been how differently I view some things as a fiction writer instead of an analyst or philosopher.   (The “veteran” part comes in there too, but the fiction writer effect is stronger than I had anticipated.)   The others’ concentration is on the “outside” of individuals–and mine, of course, is on the “inside”–on the way that individual biology, culture, and personal experience interact to create motivation for behavior.

Though this is technically off-topic for Paksworld,  I felt it would be interesting enough to many here to give you a heads-up about it.  (And let’s hope the edited version doesn’t have the font change that happened the first time around!)