People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
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…
- 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…
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…
Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith L… - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith L…
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…
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.
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.
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…
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain… - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain…
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