Part 3 - V.S. Ramachandran at Beyond Belief 2.0

[dleddy14]

very nice. how fun!

[macgeek2004]

WOAH. That was *FASCINATING*. And it's such an AWESOME coincidence that he mentioned it, because my cat actually happens to be tripping LSD right now. So this puts me in an opportune position. If this guy's theory is correct, since my cat has already taken approx. ~120mg LSD, say, if I were to then feed it ~5mg of melatonin then does that mean that he will start to see more colors or something similar?

Ima do the experiment and report back. ^_^ lol

[GoreTuzkPT]

Does this mean serotonin receptor 1a regulates objective, focused perception and serotonin receptor 2a regulates abstract, imaginative perception?

[uj1xt5m98ap]

very nice presentation. Thanks for the upload! :)

[Bockatadi]

this is amazing!

[hymnofashes]

What the fuck was that when he said "You can start...." did they edit out a drug reference there around 4:40??!

[pinkashram]

I could listen to this guy all night.

[GreatUnwashedMass]

haha I like the line about Brang having designed the slide.

[toopham]

Ramachandran is awesome. But I notice a lot of the comments he make are very condescending.

"I am not here to talk about religion and the brain."

"When some1 tell you of a disorder in the brain you dont understand you tend to push it aside and call them crazy which many of my colleague are prone to"

"If you diagnose someone as crazy then that just means you're not smart enough to solve it."

I just wonder how his colleagues feel about him.

[dcx1287]

@toopham the tone with which he said those latter two comments suggests that he was being facetious; its nothing meant to be taken seriously

[Fireeyes91]

Great uppload, thanks alot.

[gorfjorf2112]

This guy is awesome.

[zanzibar79]

He's a geezer.  This is great.

[dirtyharree]

hehe Juliet invokes a lot of associations in my horny brain

[lilmama69hallmark]

Thank you , Thank you, I could watch Ramachandran all day, he has this ability to make something like Neurology that is so complexed so easy to understand,which in turn draws you in even deeper...

Oh to win the lottery and sit through all his lectures and conferences...!!

Again thank you for putting this up !

[LennyBound]

Sure thing. Thanks for watching. :-)

[rht808]

cool beans. I noticed a decrease in my audiovisual synaesthesia when I took up smoking cigarettes. My first deep drag gave me a completely new and "sharper" but "emptier" visual perception of the world. When I began to smoke heavily and eventually quit cold turkey, I tripped balls for days as I withdrew. "Hierarchical reductionism: NOT bad reductionism" LOL! Love that.

[kavudiego]

I wonder if this relates to dislexya

[ScarletandCreme32]

I think you're on to something. I once knew a person who was both dyslexic and a synesthete. Could be just a coincidence though.

[MononofuBlood]

Thank you very much for the upload.

[LennyBound]

Glad you liked it. :-)

[theinternetscholar]

On a related note, more relating to number magnitude, I've read that our sense of numbers is based on a natural log . . Weber-Fechner Law

In other words, it's easier to understand distance between small similar numbers large similar numbers

[papasitoman]

Lenny, where did you get this from? Did it air on TV or is there a DVD? Did you record it off the channel? How does this work?

[LennyBound]

All of the talks from the conference are on Google video. But if you try to download them directly from the site the audio is off, and so your best bet is to go to a site called "KeepVid" and copy and paste the URL into there. The site also allows you to download videos that Google doesn't originally allow to be downloaded. :-)