Lily Hudson

Even the simple lessons we learn as children are deeply influenced not just by logic, but by our bodies and environment. ''The Seven Senses'' utilities the language of children's educational programmes to try and make people think about the way they think.

''There have to be ten commandments because, if there were twelve, when the priest counts one, two, three, holding up his fingers, and comes to the last two, he'd have to borrow a hand from the sacristan.''

- Foucault's Pendulum