will feel tax payers money can pay for a human chain to philosophy in their lives their labor tom stoppard they're literally called the hard problem it is us about what we're speaking a structure isn't it it's about a researcher how does you know by not the whole problem is suited to research we don't and just gives up and then he ends up in philosophy here do you feel a loss if you could somehow get out the scientific. part well i actually started doing philosophy myself so initially at school unlike probably all the other scientists with the exception of henry marshall if interviewed for my specialized subjects were after 16 so could a levels i did latin greek ancient history math pm us so. i was very into reason i didn't feel great i was really interested in philosophy and when i 1st went up to oxford for my 1st year oxford university i actually started philosophy and it was only when i got frustrated with doing formal logic having done math but i changed to psychology and then to neuroscience so i actually have i would like to think a grounding in philosophy or i see things as a philos

stoppard plays back in the day. >> stephen: sure. >> i even met tom once. >> stephen: get out. >> he's my mick jagger. >> stephen:ay. this is the do,iest conversation i have ever had on a talk show and i love it. >> stephen: it gets damn dorky, girl. it gets dorky-kong. >> i came to it gradually. i really found that i was a little disillusioned as an actress. and i got some great advice from fellow actresses who sort of warned me about the industry. and i really just looked around and felt like the system was kind of rigged against me a little bit. and i wanted to get in there and dig around in the system. >> stephen: was there a particular, like, movie you did, and you went, "okay, this is inspiring me to actually get behind the camera or direct?" >> wouldn't say-- it was more about the movies that weren't happening, right, or the sthars weren't getting told. and i do remember i was playing an elf in fred clause. >> stephen: santa claus' brother. >> it's a classic story. >> very classic. i was working with john michael higgins who became my costar in "pitch perfect." and i was stuffing, like, fake boobs on every