he explores this topic in a new book about how the science of the mind engaswi th art. the book is called the age of insight. i am pleased to have dr. eric kandel back at this table where he comes frequently. welcome. good to have you here. >> of yo nice of you to have me, charlie. >> rose: why call it the able of insight. >> the early 1900's was a very special period in which our view in which our human view was altered. before that there was the human beings of essentially rational creatures essentially created by god. this is the view of the enlightenment to be different from all other animal species. and then darwin came along and documented how we evolved from simple ancestors and made us realize that there's a continuity in evolution. and the vietnamese extended this to pointing out the human mind is also complicated and not completely rational. there are many irrational components and the idea of an important aspect of the mind being unconscious mental processes instincts that control our behavior emerged in 1900 and emerged from severa different influences that