Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.
Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinatin… - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinatin…
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive n… - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive n…
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just… - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just…
Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons. - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the t… - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the t…
Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, o… - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, o…
What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion. - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another … - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another …
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