Ode to the Brain! by Symphony of Science

[ProductionHaroldCoco]

Ya du roumain et du tchèque mais pas de francais -_-

[lukeoca]

And it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space.........

[TheGhettocommander]

your brain is a tool. ask questions, draw your own conclusions, pick a side...

and FIGHT!

i'll watch...

[Tyb3r1231]

Amazing, by the way, I've seen Robert Winston live today!

[Lima547]

Very nice!

[helloomotta]

So weird, I physically feel my brain after watching this video.

[lukeoca]

Has anyone experienced less physical pain and stress from coming to understand this?

Illness of the mind is often the cause of consequences in the form of disease and other physical ailments

[TheGhettocommander]

@lukeoca pain is an illusion of the senses, despair is an illusion of the mind!

[lukeoca]

The realisation that other human people are experiencing the exact same existence at their very core or soul, at the same time, is the root of joy and happiness

[lukeoca]

LOL! Towards the end, when its peaking up - *THINK OF ALL THE INFORMATION IT CAN STORE*

[bal2569]

Who knew the autonomic/somatic/parasymathet­ic/sympathetic systems could be so gangsta!

[ducktree64]

And then it exPLODES into this enormous collage!

[KuostA]

oh my God. that was amazing to watch high. just amazing. i laughed alloued.

[Nihakue]

The brain at the beginning looks like it's on a cutting board. Yum.

[Draedaja]

oooh~ *shiver* this is good.

[dom6e]

If Carl Sagan could see this ...

[Arm0ry]

What science needs nowadays is a way to connect to the people who do not have access to universities and higher teaching. This video does a pretty good job.

[MaxwellSDSU]

Holy crap, that was awesome.

[TheGhettocommander]

i like how these pieces of meat argue about theories and religions they didnt come up with.

[lovelandjakes]

OK THAT IS IT THIS HAS TO BE MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SONG SHARING IT ALL OVER!

[D3adM3rchant]

The brain is beautiful.

[SkullCollectorD5]

It is the most mysterious part of the human body.

And yet it dominates the way we live our adult lives.

It is the moustache.

[dtingleff]

Very well done.

[TheGhettocommander]

i wish you assholes will stop your gay ass debate and listen to the fuckin song...

[computerdl]

This makes me want to cry for autistic people. the lack of understanding we have of them... Who knows, maybe life is more enjoyable for them than it will ever be for us.

[skating1611]

@computerdl What does autism have anything to do with this...?

[frackcha]

@skating1611 What does Autism have to do with a song titled "Ode to the brain"

Really??

[skating1611]

@frackcha I was replying to a particular comment; I wasn't talking about the video... Really.

[ChrisZ0595]

This is the only thing we did in my Science class today, watch this video over and over again! lol

[MelissiaBlackheart]

"And in this moment we are perfect

We are whole and we are beautiful"

Indeed we are.

[skating1611]

@MelissiaBlackheart I can't tell if you're being sarcastic... :I

[MelissiaBlackheart]

@skating1611

I'm not.

[OtseisRagnarok]

the fleetingness of our lives, given how amazing everything we can and have accomplished, is just so very, very depressing.

[yokombo]

An ode to the brain means worshipping the flesh.

[HDaviator]

@yokombo

An ode is a poem used to praise something. You can't worship the flesh, otherwise it wouldn't be worship. Worshiping is stupid anyways. Plus, the point of this video is to show how complex the brain is, and for you to understand that everything you feel comes from the brain, including love.

[elfypooh]

I listen to this a lot :)

[TheAngelusOfNex]

Imagine: During the video "information" was streaming to your brain as energy, and the cycle kept going on and on and on. Reading this comment is the same thing. Truly amazing.

[TheTako123]

great songs

[kop300]

I don't know why but this song brings peace to me, it relaxes me, it gives me goosebumps...

[d3st88]

@kop300

I get a similar chill from this song. Perhaps because for 3 minutes 42 seconds it lulls me into this illusionary world, where people care more about cracking the fascinating mysteries of the natural world than they care about celebrities, gossip, religion and shallow crap like that. It lulls me into a world that feels like.. home.

[Ital92]

@d3st88 exactly!

[tukedamoose]

@d3st88 If only it were true, imagine where we could be as a society though I would argue that religion can cause interest in science even if it is to disprove something.

[gtas321]

@d3st88 I'm sorry man but that entire paragraph is extremely cheesy..

[EffectsTime]

@d3st88 I love the way you articulate your thoughts so well :)

[PokkiTube]

@d3st88 I feel the same way:)

[JackALope044]

@d3st88

Yeah, nah, you're a cunt. You're the reason people hate science types like ourselves.

[d3st88]

@JackALope044

Yeah, I also killed the dinosaurs and caused the nazi holocaust.

[MaxwellSDSU]

@d3st88

If you have that much power...you should have brought the dinosaurs through time and sent them against the Nazi's. Nazi's vs Dinosaurs.

[ryadmere]

@d3st88 you described it perfectly!

[HajtomY]

@d3st88 hear hear! Great words !

[slybuster]

@combatcommand they couldn't even get you interested via auto-tune and enthusiastic scientists vocalizing their awe

[Dannoneusk91]

An enchanted what? Loooma?

Hell, I don't even know what he is saying and it relaxes me...

[shizzleman8]

@Dannoneusk91 Click on the 'show more' button, it reveals the lyrics.

Loom: 1.An apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn or thread.

I like "20 million volumes worth of information" < Temple Grandin is the only person I'm aware of who even has a photographic memory. I guess the 20 million is on total recall or accessible memory. (obviously 8)

[MrsKrazy4Music]

My school listens to this song in science. Everyone screams the part that goes "Then it explodes into this enormous collage." Our science teacher still plays it.

[TheMrSupercluster]

@MrsKrazy4Music can you record it. It would be awesome to see it



[MrsKrazy4Music]

@TheMrSupercluster

I wish but no one is sneaky enough to bring something into class because he would FREAK out at us then.

[Salengot]

that chick is hot.

[KazAlphaville]

That talk by Jill Bolte is one of the most inspirational talks I have ever heard.

[Dannoneusk91]

@KazAlphaville Can you tell me where do find it? Pllleeeaaasee?

[KazAlphaville]

@Dannoneusk91 Go to ted. com and search for Jill Bolte Taylor

[Bulbamaniac]

UCL peerwise brought me here

[Timodia]

We see with the eyes and we see with the brain as well= imagination.

[iBangsKrew]

This video utterly captivated me when I watched in my Psych class. The mind is beauty!

[shandcunt]

@shizzleman8 "his body and recognized the nurse who was giving him CPR before he was returned to his body" - Does the guy think it actually happened? or does he jst think he had a cool dream? - One is an amazing experience, the other is the failuire to recognise the difference between reality and imagination

[bal2569]

@shandcunt DMT release.

[americanEYE]

@bal2569 hmm...It seems you're trying to use dying brain theory to explain this incident.

[LilMissSadie6]

& then it EXPLOODES into an enormous collage! hahha best part :)

[eatingtacos000]

farty boobs i love this song

[Carbonizer8]

AN ENCHANTED LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOMUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHH!

[ChiaroscuroxX]

0:07 all ISee there

is MUSTASCHE!!!

[Carbonizer8]

My lecturer just showed this in my Human Physiology and Immunology class :D GOOSEBUMPS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!

[shizzleman8]

@Carbonizer8 That's way cool, I've got an excellent professor who makes learning fun, dfpolis #15. He wears this Indiana Jones outfit and then takes us through a crime scene of the fifties, and Paley's stone and fills in all the gaps.

I look the cut of your jib too! 8D

[Carbonizer8]

@shizzleman8  WOW that sounds awesome! I'd kill to have my lecturers wear an Indiana Jones outfit UBERCOOL!

[shizzleman8]

@Carbonizer8 You obviously didn't watch the video or you wouldn't have written what you have here. Dennis Polis, Ph.d in Theoretical Physics and President Prize winner donned his Indian Jones outfit then took us on an expedition into the wild. That's the difference between sitting in a lecture hall and being spoon fed information that only leads one to the parks where one wears a sign, I'm dedicated, I'm 69%.

[Carbonizer8]

@shizzleman8 HonestDiscussioner does a good job against this Dennis.

[shizzleman8]

@Carbonizer8 Isn't that amazing how great the unknown assailer (anonymous coward) the loser who can't even identify himself and is 45 years behind the Good Doctor in education and experience can relentlessly & repititiously ask the same stupid questions over and over again and be taken seriously by a serious mind? "You're not addressing AWARENESS, but LEVELS of awareness. Dr. Polis at leas has a working model of the mind, only David Chalmers Ph.d has TRIED to do that. Do you understand MIND?

[ProfesorCastillo]

Ovación de pie, Wow,

[tsbiggestfan13]

we hv 2 watch tis in scince class n itz always stuck in my head :)

[toadshaw91]

@tsbiggestfan13 You should probably skip Science and re-take English...

[DirigiblePlumCompany]

20 million volumes of information on video games....

whoa.

[Skomakarn]

Then it explodes into this enormous moustache.

[pawlopascual]

@Skomakarn can't be unread.hahahaha I keep laughing everytime I hear the chorus now.damn

[Treekodar]

@Skomakarn But... it's not even close. Ahh feck it!

[rawr345]

This give me goosebumpsss. If you haven't already, watch the TED talk with Jill Bolte Taylor, it's really really interesting.

[saganemc2]

awesome hook

[Kevstar19]

@saganemc2 I was just thinking that...the hook is phenomenal.

[yxrcbszg]

How could the very organ that allow you to think, feel and to experince things dislike the same video that's glorifying it ?

[keesengels]

@yxrcbszg

It takes a special kind of brain. One that is switched off in favour of a religion ;)

[saganemc2]

@yxrcbszg because a brain is like a car. just because you own one doesn't mean you know how to use it!

[tenthings2006]

AND THEN IT EXPLODES INTO THESE ELECTRIC GUITARS !!!!!

[JAGIDTechNewsReviews]

Bill Nye the Science Guy? Shit just got real.

[patsofatso]

@hgaflerby he was talking bout the tissue between the legs.

[Surya112]

"We have the ability to change ourselves. Think of the possibilities."

[leapofthefrog]

Here is this massive jelly . . .

[3rkid2]

@leapofthefrog

Mass of jelly.

[RoantreeLtd]

i've just discovered your videos and i'm totally in love with everything!

[malschaun93]

Well, this present moment sounds awesome.

[happyhappy85]

Awesome melody on that 'explodes' refrain.

[MetalTubest]

And it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space :)

[dawtchins]

@MetalTubest I think thats probably impossible .

[FunkyMonkeyJunkie302]

I think that this should be the way science is taught in schools...

[oliver2k94]

R.I.P Carl Sagan

[GDop26]

@oliver2k94 He is not really dead, you can still talk with him through his work, his TV series the Cosmos. You can also read any of the 20 or so books he wrote, because if you think about it, books are a passage-way to the writer's mind, so you could in a way still talk to him or at least learn about him through his words of wisdom. Besides the atoms of his body are still in existence. So in some way he is traveling the world and the universe, as will we when one day our physical lives end.

[oliver2k94]

@GDop26 That is true, very nicely said my friend. It is a very spiritual feeling indeed.

[ImChungalungas]

@oliver2k94 Don't forget Bill Nye.

[dickfishdk]

Amazing, plz keep it up ! :D

[docbone1115]

I wish this video contained footage from someone other than Jill Bolte Taylor. She did some fantastic work (and I think she still does some academic work), but her legacy is her pseudoscience ideas on the right/left brain consciousness asymmetry, and the role of that demonstrably inaccurate asymmetry in her sense of spiritual self. There is so much great work going on right now, exploring the physical substrate of brain function...why use someone with outdated ideas couched in pseudoscience?

[TopHatToppingTops]

@docbone1115 My guess is the fact they looked for a specific type of female voice for the videos.... Seriously.. They made these sons from clips.. it's not like they went out and recruited neuro-scientists to sing for them... They work with what they have and it's not THAT easy to find talks revolving around neuroscience that are all about the same general topic - or talked about in such a vague way it can be related to other areas.

[Piitsi]

@docbone1115 I agree her story is easily grabbed by pseudo science. However her remarkable story and experience do reveal some insights of the weirdness of our brain. I don't think her story should be dismissed even if she does sound a bit new-agey. Her story is maybe a bit too much about emotions and short on science. A bit too much experience and little experiment. So you do have a very valid point, but SoS has always been about the both, experience of wonder in musical form backed by science.

[necridos]

@docbone1115 because her lecture made a great chorus :P

[longmind]

@necridos I watched Jill's lecture long before Boz made this video.She is brilliant and relates a fascinating story about experiencing a stroke as a neurologist,.but her voice... yikes. Fingernails on a chalkboard. The SoS autotune treatment is the only way I can listen to her for extended periods.

[shizzleman8]

@longmind My two favorites are Jill and Oliver Sacks. The first chapter of his book Musicophilia is about an M.D. who was struck by lightning, left his body and recognized the nurse who was giving him CPR before he was returned to his body. Then he gave up his medical practice to be a concert pianist. I've been playing piano for 37 years, I guess I need to be struck by lightning.

[brystonhutchinson]

Haha, I think my favourite might be We are all Connected, or Save the Trees. Though We are all connected was the first I ever saw, and Ive listened to alot of George Carlin.

[Gazgule2]

This is the most beautiful of the Symphonies...

[Ahiatua]

/watch?v=MjYuCv6nDbQ

[VOIDxxxxoooooo]

@Ahiatua Why do I want to watch anything but your sorry, skinny, old ass? I could buy you, and make you do anything I want. LOL! Everything is for sale, is it not?

[Ahiatua]

These paths of energy are something that these kids are missing today. Bet the wont even understand the reference. Yet it is sitting in front of their face.

[Ahiatua]

I apologize for this fucktard ruining a good video. And I apologize for feeding him some more. He won't go away, just don't talk to him. He needs a moment of Science.

[VOIDxxxxoooooo]

@Ahiatua You don't have to say one thing! I like talking to you, because I know you are burning every time I say something. It hurts you, getting old, and feeling inferior to the young men out there. Doesn't it? LOL!

[Ahiatua]

@VOIDxxxxoooooo Just saying, all you do is troll and stare at nutsacks. At least I work, Have a hobby breathing fire which draws extra income, Instead of what do you do? Work at a gay strip club? probably. And Inferior to what? Superior is more like it. Show me a fraction of talent you possess. Can you? No.

[VOIDxxxxoooooo]

@Ahiatua You said, "real men don't talk about their wallets!" And, I already told you, how much I make. I think I will have a pet name for you" "My Little Dum Dum!" How do you like that, my little dum, dum?

[VOIDxxxxoooooo]

@Ahiatua "He won't go away, just don't talk to him." LOL! I like to troll, and it is a passion I have! You are on my list, my friend. I got lots and lot of "clients!" I love how I know who you are, and where you are at, but you have not a clue! LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

[fpep5]

good idea but the auto-tune really ruins this for me

[shizzleman8]

@fpep5 If you're up for some straight forward teaching I'm currently featuring a video that obliterates Causal Closure on my channel by a Ph.d in Theoretical Physics from Notre Dame, a President's Prize winner, and a current philosopher, a 70 year old guru who has a son who's a first order Franciscan Monk! A contemporary of Pantinga, and Good Will Craig his 50 videos put a startling and refreshing edge on their thoughts and teachings. dfpolis #15 God & Scientific Explanation - Existence Proof

[danceparty15]

YES!! go bill nye!!! blast from the past

[xSaNdWiChPaRtYx]

00:7 Pedophile



[nuckable]

@xSaNdWiChPaRtYx Wtf are you talking about?

[xSaNdWiChPaRtYx]

@nuckable It's that face and glasses, that sort of look up to the paedophile stereotype, and I was making a joke. Everybody's too serious on the comments section of these videos.

[aukai102706]

"Here is this mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hands and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space" huh...

[TheCrappyaccount]

you should put Walter Lewin in some of these. He is definitely worth it.

[LoneSoldierRyan]

Ode to the brain mofos!

[TopHatDown]

That is awesome. :D

[HatrickPopcans]

This is still my favorite SoS video. Because all of these people are talking about these amazing, remarkable, and beautiful things - and they are describing ME!! When I watch this, and listen to this, it makes me feel so special. I get completely overcome. LOVE it.

[ixigray]

It is the most mysterious part of the human body, and yet it dominates the way we live our lives. It is the mustache.

[BlockisticStudios]

@ixigray

Robert Williams: Mustachioed Neurosurgeon Edition 

[spacemermaid2012]

@ixigray the muscle between our legs, I might add.

[patsofatso]

@spacemermaid2012 it isn't a muscle

[spacemermaid2012]

@patsofatso ehmm....then.....what in the world is it.....

[pmgodfrey]

@ixigray

Find something original to say instead of repeating popular comments from months ago.

[necridos]

@pmgodfrey mustache

[pmgodfrey]

@necridos

ಠ_ಠ

[MrMattyvibes]

l.l..l..like a walnut. Peace out bros.

[Kindred1a1]

Screw the brain, somebody needs to study that bitchin mustache!

[joemantex]

@Kindred1a1 I believe he became a Scientist because that mustache was too badass for 70s porn!

[Kindred1a1]

@joemantex

interesting theory, we'll need some experimental data and, dare I say, a sample

[RixPixable]

If Jill Bolte Taylor was a Christian, she'd make a hell of preacher.

Look how she waves her arms.

[RixPixable]

92 people do not feel, think, or love. 

[Areyourealythatdumb]

imagine having your brain removed and kept alive on life support. all you would be able to do is think and imagine but you would still be yourself and your body would be a puppet. the brain is what the human is and the body is the puppet in which it keeps alive.

[joemantex]

This song makes me proud to be human!

[JediWindex]

This is just epic.

[Electricdreamerb]

Oh. My. God. CARL SAGAN'S HAIR <3

No homo.

[AbakerTlover]

nye solo!

[Purplemoose202]

Raddness

[RixPixable]

The clip at 1:49 is completely unrelated to the brain.

That clip is from a Brian Greene documentary about String Theory.

[OtiumBorealis]

@RixPixable It's not about the origin of the clip. It's a visual representation of that part of the lyrics: "The neurons store sounds too, and snatches of music. Whole orchestras play inside our heads."

[HDaviator]

*Scratches head* is she talking about an orgasm? *Scratches head* <----- Retard alert.

[prorsoft]

@HDaviator No, about the firing of a neuron.

[iCheesey]

BILL NYE...

[erionmema1]

if every subject at school was explained like this I would get A+ in all of them

[Zeikxx]

So glad Michael Jackson is dead