Robert G. Bednarik

Robert G. Bednarik, born in Vienna but an Australian since 1970, contradicts norms. He has undertaken numerous expeditions crossing the sea on rafts built with stone tools, but he cannot swim; he has produced over 1400 academic publications, including many books, and is a professor, but he has no formal education; he edits three scientific journals and two series of monographs, but none in his native language. As a complete autodidact, he regards himself as ignorant as did Socrates, and sees Aboriginal elders as his only teachers. His principal interest is the origin of the human ability to create constructs of reality, and in a wide variety of fields providing supplementary information for that quest. These range from human evolution to the neurosciences, from epistemology to anthropology.