Vehicles for Thought: The World of Valentino Braitenberg

Valentino Braitenberg spent decades studying how the brain is wired, convinced that anatomy, looked at carefully enough, reveals function. But he is best remembered for a slim 1984 book about imaginary robots that seemed to feel fear, show aggression, fall in love. This episode takes us into his world — a life that spanned continents, and a mind that refused to stay in one discipline.