Raymond Tallis On Tickling

Dozens of couples dance in a circle a house topples down a slope a cat manically revolves around itself A few seconds beforehand an admonishing voice points out that a centuriesold philosophical assumption is under close scrutiny It is René Descartes first tenet I think therefore I am that the British neurologist Raymond Tallis calls into question in the video by the artist Johan Grimonprez Tallis takes the view that human consciousness is not an individual construction but exists above all in relation to a visàvis