Hi guys

I heard this interview the other day.

It is on the Australian broadcasting commission website

It is a fascinating interview with a professor who studies the human brain. The talk ranges from stem cells, nerve cell regeneration to memory. They also discuss real progress of treatments that may in 2 to 10 years time enable us to repair spinal cord trauma, they also discuss intelligence, free will and human consciousness.

If you are interested just Click this link in your browser then click on your preferred media player http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversatio ns/stories/s2013874.htm?queensland" title="http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversatio ns/stories/s2013874.htm?queensland" target="_blank"http://www.abc.net.au/queensl...

It amazes me how far we have come with medicine. My grandfather was 45 years old when he died in about 1967 of a heart attack; the method of treatment was to send him home as he slowly died over the next two days.

These days unless you have a massive heart attack you would live for at least another 20 years.

I have a mixture of feelings as I consider that I have already lived an extra 2 years longer than him. I think we should never take for granted how lucky we are to be living through these wonderfully enlightened times.