If I, the experiencer of my life, am an emergent property of my brain, then a clone of my brain should mean that I would get to experience life again from the point-of-view of the new brain, a bit like being reborn. But this wouldn't occur, instead a new, separate experiencer would emerge. However, if you wiped clean my memory, I would still be the experiencer of my life, even though I wouldn't remember who I was. Two identical brains, two separate experiencers. What makes me the experiencer?
@1simonmatthews Well, how do you want to approach this from a Philosophical point of view? Like Tabula Rasa? Is this what you are inferring too? A Neurological point of view? Scientifically? Consciousness is that what I assume you are referring too when you speak about emergent properties? It is sometimes said that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain. In order to answer this I need more information. In other words what about other variables too?
@RichWalston Whatever approach brings truth. If there's one thing I know, it's that I experience. Now, if you wiped my memory, my identity as Simon Matthews would be gone, but I would still experience, and start again learning everything from anew. Or say you had one memory erased, it would still have been you who experienced that event and not a different person. But with a cloned brain, it's a different experiencer altogether, which makes me think the experiencer is not produced by the brain?
@cyclotane Yes, of course. It is just that some of his theories are debated by others. Even the best people are wrong sometimes. Even his students Carl Jung had a falling out with him. It was not a joking falling out. It was a serious academic disagreement. I am not an expert on any of these subjects. I am just trying to give you what little information I know from Basic Psych 101 College courses. Some people get jokes and then some do. I never find most things funny. LOL :).
First, I would like to mention that i have seen the mirror experiment in "House MD" and i was actually surprised that it's true!
Second, I thought of a question: how is imagination linked to all of this? because there is quite a nuance between imagination and creativity... so is it the same part of the brain? Like when you imagine 3D shapes, is it hightened visual capabilities?
I checked the video time after he asked for a minute break, couldn't believe it was 20 minutes already - it was more like 2 minutes - so absorbed. Thanks for the upload.
proves the human body is like a network of several sensors and Virtual sensors which identify problems in the body which can be fooled, just like a smart phone but a organic one which has its own brain
Thank God for youtube... Great Ramachandran lecture at the comfort of my living room.. priceless... "The latent beastiality in everyon" he's is so funny haha...
The content of this man's lecture is obviously wonderful but what I couldn't help but think about was his accent...it sounds like a mix of Indian & Scottish. Awesome.
Another Hindu Brahmin engaging in ownage; keep it up! This man's grandfather drafted the Indian Constitution (Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer).
Why on earth did VS marry an untouchable (American)? It is terrible that he, as well as another Tamil Brahmin Nobel Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, married an untouchable. Kali Yuga is certainly upon us. Please maintain tradition and caste purity.
@josealonsoleon hitler was an untouchable.. whatever he "wanted" or said doesn't mean shit.. and.. he had no idea about caste. he was a racist.. you don't even know the difference.. lol.
Vilayanur Ramachandran is a BRILLIANT man, and much more pleasant to listen to than Jill Bolte Taylor.
I'm not going to respect the woman just because she had a stroke, I mean, yes, it is a touching story... but I think that her new age thinking is biased and dangerous. She thinks the right hemisphere is what it is all about. She doesn't realize there has to be balance between our hemispheres, and we should NOT rejoice when logic, skepticism, & reasoning die.
Im a little confused by Dr Ramachandran's assertion that metaphorical thinking and synisthesia are parrallel processes (and his explanation that this is why sysisthesia is so common in artists and writers etc) - after all, metaphor is all about finding common factors between different things -to use his example, a spiky shape and a spiky sound. But in sinesthesia, numbers and colours etc the link between the two is completely arbitrary - "one" is not a particularly green colour...
Kipling challenged us to fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. Listening to Dr. Ramachandran well surpasses that test.
BTW off topic, but you ppl notice how he seems to have a hint of scottish accent thrown in with some Indian twang? Is he doing a tenure in scotland for some reason?
Yup, he's Indian. He's been in US for a long time after finishing his undergrad in India. That's why his accent is not typically Indian (akin to a new immigrant), but you can tell when he emphasizes certain words such as "holy grail" with an elongated "r".
@mcaj007 he studied in England before going to the US. His grammar is way too good for Americans; most of whom are utterly idiotic and think words like "snuck" and "architecting" are words.
@MahaVakyas Whereas people like you are extremely prone to stereotyping and maintaining backward traditions. It's people like you that bring shame to us Indians (and people in general) who see people as *people* rather than instruments of tradition and power.
Anyway, damn good Tedtalk. This was one of the better ones, for sure.
@ashjk92 you stupid cunt.. what the fuck is "backward tradition" you stupid untouchable? mingling with untouchable vermin (jews/christians/muslims) is really backward.. keeping with your own kind is the best for all.. even animals follow that..go watch some more "bollywood" and mingle with those filthy vermin..
Exactly. And since we're animals too, humans mate with humans. Caucasians, Africans, Asians etc. are of the same species, hence intermingling is possible and their offspring are fertile (unlike horses and donkeys which produce mules, for example).
@MahaVakyas Wow. Someone is bitter. Oh well, no use arguing with stupid people over the internet...
I loved his material on synesthesia especially. At the lab I worked at (I'm just a lowly undergrad RA), they had been doing a lot of cog sci research involving musicians and synesthesia, and it was fantastically cool. I'd love to meet this guy, I hear he's set up camp at UCSD...lucky bastards.
An extraordinary mind Ramachandran has, I am 26, though a very late starter, I intend on going to medical school to study neurology. I want to work with intelligent people like this man.
Great talk. The only thing Ramachandran is missing from his brilliant analyses is that consciousness is fundamental. The human brain is unique and powerful, no doubt; but it was formed and works through consciousness, and not the reverse. Philosophers and some scientists (alan watts, amit goswami, etc), are supporting this, as they're finding more and more evidence for it.
@asswaxer100 consciousness is no knockout-criteria. It's just a part of the system the brain uses.
Even the opposite. A conciousness, as defined, requires a subconciousness. Otherwise they wouldn't be seperated. As long as there are processes, that you aren't aware, no dilemma is created.
@asswaxer100 the conciousness is important. it's the most modern part of our brain, that is important for beeing human. But It's 'only' a layer on top of the subconcious, that implements all basic functions of our body.
Our Conciousness wouldn't be able to handle ALL decisions the subconcious makes every second. So we wouldn't be able to survive, without our subconciousness.
His speech basically covers the subconcious, that's why he neither agrees, nor disagrees with your statement.
@smrndoff Bread is made of wheat, we agree on that. But for your analogy to work, then consciousness would have to be made of brain. That's not the case, and therefore you've used a false analogy...I'm not talking abt nothingness, nor am I talking about "being consciouss"--that does require a brain, true. I'm talking about an alternative viewpoint which is becoming more and more widely held: that consciousness is fundamental, not matter. (u can see amit goswami on youtube, as just 1 example)
I don't accept that a person can be conscious without a brain. Without a life without a physical body.
So, if you're suggesting we live on after death, I'm afraid you will find no empathy from me. The intent of two people to create a child is not physical but without physicality, nothing happens. The merest flicker of consciousness / thinking required matter.
I'm as certain as I can be about anything that when your brain dies, thoughts die, consciousness dies. goswami or no.
Oh, please don't give up your dream so easily. I mean, it might be possible that something intangable flies out of our nostrils or eminates from our bodies after death. Of course, this 'something' would actually have to be 'nothing' (because if it weren't nothing it would include matter).
Perhaps nothing flies out of your nostril when you die and continues to think and feel things....just for you.
@smrndoff For someone who's so certain, you don't sound very content with what you believe. Or else why the ranting and raving? Btw, consciousness is Non- material (thoughts and images aren't things). if everything were made of matter, then consciousness wouldn't even exist. What you think doesn't affect me, but you ought to check your own arguments for logical inconsistencies... The dream thing was funny, thanks for the laugh.
@asswaxer100 Did you watch the video? Consciousness, emotion, thought - it's all in the brain. It isn't a sacred essence, impervious to material damage. If your brain is injured, some aspect of you is changed. Thoughts and images may not be material 'things', but they are produced by your neurons, which are entirely material.
@Shikamaru747 Hi. Sure, the brain is the reason u have a personality, yes it's all in the brain. But consider this. The brain is made of material parts, like a chair. A chair doesn't produce anything unlike itself, but the brain does. How can a material object give rise to immaterial things? You may say that the brain is more complex, and that the interaction bt. the neurons generate thoughts. But if u say that, then u have to admit that it's a phenomenon just as mysterious as what I suggested.
@asswaxer100 It isn't mysterious enough to declare it intangible. We already know how neurons interact, through electrical and chemical signaling (lol, wiki).
Also, thoughts and ideas are immaterial in the same way a computer program is. Granted, you can't touch them, but they has no existence apart from the hard-drive or server or fleshy brain they're stored on. And like a computer, the brain is a material object creating immaterial things.
@Shikamaru747 As for the bit about computers doing the same thing as the brain, I'll state my opinion now, that a computer will *never* be able to function like a brain, being self aware, etc. This is because it doesn't inherently contain the ability to generate consciousness; and modern science shows us that you can't get something from nothing; it had to have been there, latent, but involved, from the beginning.
Now I don't expect you to agree with me on this, I just wanted to state my point.
@asswaxer100 Interesting opinion. I've always thought that the brain was little more than an advanced computer. We've already managed to simulate a rat brain, from what I hear. As to getting something from nothing, that analogy isn't quite appropriate. For one thing, we're *always* starting from something. No one's planning to take an empty vacuum and conjure a consciousness out of it. If we can create an artificial network of a few billion neurons or so, that's a different story.
ASSHOLE I R4ILLY DONT LIKE THE MAJORITYTM OF YOU OR MORE IMPOTANTLY, HOW ALL TRGISA SHIT RELates 6o me...because...I cann speak Tagalog, too,you know?!?!
for every person watching this video there are TWO THOUSAND idiots watching a clip of justin bieber. at this point it's apparent that there's something wrong with the world...
I actually went and took the moment to write what KilluaXlll said on a Bieber video. I don't think people had the mental capacity to understand what I was talking about...
@KilluaXIII ... I hate to say it but you are absolutely right. Here's an example: last month I saw two youtube clips: one by a physicist about parallel universes and the other was an X factor clip of some kid singing. The physicist has 2,000 views. The kid singing on X factor? 10 million!! It's a sad reality and reflects very badly on the general intelligence of humanity.
@KilluaXIII oh please for the love of whatever made us, stop using Justin Bieber as a scapegoat on Youtube videos. It's not funny and it's not clever.
@kaupunkimoukari true, but the sad thing is the reason for it. everyone has incredible potential which usually is completely locked up and buried under layers of bullshit...
@KilluaXIII Well that's because YouTube is run by teenagers and less who will go on and hate on this kid. It's either that they're jealous of him or that they have some form of subconcious love. idk. I'm 14 and I'm scared for my generation. If this is us now, I see a lot of wars coming up.
@SardonicFox1994 By watching these videos, those "uneducated idiots" are becoming educated human beings. I'd love a suggestion as to a better place to start than Ramachandran, he's a genius to even be able to explain this material to laymen.
The mirror box part instantly made me think of House and the episode where he used a mirror box to cure the pain in his asshole neighbor's phantom hand.
People know which one is Kiki and which one is Bubba not because they associate the sound with the image, but because the associate the shape of the letters K and B with with the images, one is sharp and pointy like K and the other is round like B.
@GMLSX Then the question is: are the "k" and the "b" sounds universally, or at least generally, represented in other languages with the same kinds of shapes as in the roman alphabet?
@xavierpaquin I was going to say the same thing. Maybe if we did the test with people who only spoke a language that had different written letters for "k" and "b" it would be more scientifically sound
@Joeri12 The world is backwards and upside down for a reason but you can still be your own teacher if you're fortunate enough. And that is the whole aim of an education, to teach us how to think rather than what to think.
The word is "autodidact" and, although I'm not one myself, I do teach myself new things all the time. I have been fortunate enough to obtain a Bachelor's degree already so I have received formal education but I've learned a lot more from informal education (things such as watching this video by Ramachandran) than I did in college.
@andyrooney12 Neither formal or informal education can show you yourself. The true 'I' is silent. A silent teaching. So is it possible to you learn in absolute inner stillness and silence? You then become the teacher and the pupil which is the actual happening, so do it now and see or block yourself from learning.
The power within our brains to adapt is really something to marvel.
falgorian1 3 weeks ago
my brain s crazy
shashi10ka 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
At 5:01, a little center of right when the camera points to the audience: is that Larry David? Looks just like him.
An0rhu 1 month ago
At 15:28 he completely cured my cold as all the mucous came out laughing. MCOL.
MurkMenthaa 2 months ago
lol FUK DAT YALz no i don fukin no wat he say lol THUG LIFE!! nigga mayke tym on d a streeeetz haha chek out mah ill rap on my page
jerwaynemessum 2 months ago
well sharing
MrPEDOCTOR 2 months ago
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Freud is not respected. Almost everything he made up was wrong.
PaulthePhilosopher2 2 months ago
If I, the experiencer of my life, am an emergent property of my brain, then a clone of my brain should mean that I would get to experience life again from the point-of-view of the new brain, a bit like being reborn. But this wouldn't occur, instead a new, separate experiencer would emerge. However, if you wiped clean my memory, I would still be the experiencer of my life, even though I wouldn't remember who I was. Two identical brains, two separate experiencers. What makes me the experiencer?
1simonmatthews 3 months ago 2
@1simonmatthews Well, how do you want to approach this from a Philosophical point of view? Like Tabula Rasa? Is this what you are inferring too? A Neurological point of view? Scientifically? Consciousness is that what I assume you are referring too when you speak about emergent properties? It is sometimes said that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain. In order to answer this I need more information. In other words what about other variables too?
RichWalston 3 months ago
@RichWalston Whatever approach brings truth. If there's one thing I know, it's that I experience. Now, if you wiped my memory, my identity as Simon Matthews would be gone, but I would still experience, and start again learning everything from anew. Or say you had one memory erased, it would still have been you who experienced that event and not a different person. But with a cloned brain, it's a different experiencer altogether, which makes me think the experiencer is not produced by the brain?
1simonmatthews 3 months ago
i dont understand why people laugh at 4:45 when he says a freudian argument.
why is it funy?
cyclotane 3 months ago 2
@cyclotane It's the joke that Freudian arguments seem absurd sometimes.
RichWalston 3 months ago
@RichWalston but isnt freud a respected man? or not anymore
cyclotane 3 months ago 2
@cyclotane Yes, of course. It is just that some of his theories are debated by others. Even the best people are wrong sometimes. Even his students Carl Jung had a falling out with him. It was not a joking falling out. It was a serious academic disagreement. I am not an expert on any of these subjects. I am just trying to give you what little information I know from Basic Psych 101 College courses. Some people get jokes and then some do. I never find most things funny. LOL :).
RichWalston 3 months ago
@cyclotane
hmm well..he's a controversial man
tjxkid 2 months ago
First, I would like to mention that i have seen the mirror experiment in "House MD" and i was actually surprised that it's true!
Second, I thought of a question: how is imagination linked to all of this? because there is quite a nuance between imagination and creativity... so is it the same part of the brain? Like when you imagine 3D shapes, is it hightened visual capabilities?
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I checked the video time after he asked for a minute break, couldn't believe it was 20 minutes already - it was more like 2 minutes - so absorbed. Thanks for the upload.
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His comment has 133 thumbs up and is not shown in the top comments. Interesting.
nofollow 4 months ago 2
Is that Richard branson at 23.41 ?
akram4179 4 months ago 2
Talk about creative thinking with regard to the mirror box. Amazing...
MrChristianRC 6 months ago
he's between a pot field and a drum set
Donsknotts 6 months ago
What a fucking genius
Guoldisney 6 months ago
Is that richard branson at 23:42?
Proteus6684 6 months ago
@Proteus6684
Yes it is. He seems to randomly show up everywhere.
Jammed9000 5 months ago
TedtalksDirector vids are high quality stoner entertainment : )
Proteus6684 6 months ago
Hottie @ 2:54
1isaacmusic 7 months ago
Did anybody else catch the Zeppelin line near the end? Fuckin epic.
andyAnarchy2112 7 months ago
indian einstein!
LeadBlimp 7 months ago
@LeadBlimp weird! i wrote that before watching and now im seeing pictures of einstein everywhere haha
LeadBlimp 7 months ago
had to go a....lll the way back to find KilluaXIII comment.
gingersnapskara 7 months ago
proves the human body is like a network of several sensors and Virtual sensors which identify problems in the body which can be fooled, just like a smart phone but a organic one which has its own brain
kingGgame 7 months ago
Thank God for youtube... Great Ramachandran lecture at the comfort of my living room.. priceless... "The latent beastiality in everyon" he's is so funny haha...
vinceism1 8 months ago
how does the brain interpret the mirror of the hand as a real hand even though the person is fully aware it is a mirror image?
smilebright468 8 months ago
this guys accent is fucking awesome.
ParadigmShift22 8 months ago 41
The content of this man's lecture is obviously wonderful but what I couldn't help but think about was his accent...it sounds like a mix of Indian & Scottish. Awesome.
andyrooney12 9 months ago
@N7242C Hm. I didn't hear any rambling.
drumrnva 9 months ago
holy crap, is that Richard Branson at 23:42?
PurPLehAZe878 9 months ago
@N7242C Are you implying that an implied opinion is incorrect whilst implying your opinion to be correct?
ThePompousBitch 9 months ago
Really clear explanation also for thos who are not do familiar with brain functioning.
NoisyVisionChannel 9 months ago
Another Hindu Brahmin engaging in ownage; keep it up! This man's grandfather drafted the Indian Constitution (Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer).
Why on earth did VS marry an untouchable (American)? It is terrible that he, as well as another Tamil Brahmin Nobel Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, married an untouchable. Kali Yuga is certainly upon us. Please maintain tradition and caste purity.
MahaVakyas 9 months ago
@MahaVakyas Adolf Hitler also wanted that, look were that got him!
josealonsoleon 9 months ago
@josealonsoleon hitler was an untouchable.. whatever he "wanted" or said doesn't mean shit.. and.. he had no idea about caste. he was a racist.. you don't even know the difference.. lol.
MahaVakyas 9 months ago
Why don't we just show the people who have capgras this video...
ubermensch826 9 months ago
Vilayanur Ramachandran is a BRILLIANT man, and much more pleasant to listen to than Jill Bolte Taylor.
I'm not going to respect the woman just because she had a stroke, I mean, yes, it is a touching story... but I think that her new age thinking is biased and dangerous. She thinks the right hemisphere is what it is all about. She doesn't realize there has to be balance between our hemispheres, and we should NOT rejoice when logic, skepticism, & reasoning die.
Enough ranting, brilliant speech.
zrhealey 9 months ago 3
@zrhealey you know, there's the Rush album out there called Hemispheres.
nanomagnetic 8 months ago
Im a little confused by Dr Ramachandran's assertion that metaphorical thinking and synisthesia are parrallel processes (and his explanation that this is why sysisthesia is so common in artists and writers etc) - after all, metaphor is all about finding common factors between different things -to use his example, a spiky shape and a spiky sound. But in sinesthesia, numbers and colours etc the link between the two is completely arbitrary - "one" is not a particularly green colour...
Ozrielos 9 months ago
Kipling challenged us to fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. Listening to Dr. Ramachandran well surpasses that test.
elquemando 10 months ago
Dr house did the mirror thing to a Canadian Vietnam war veteran........thought it was science fiction
frilink 10 months ago
Awesome talk! Who knew till know...
BTW off topic, but you ppl notice how he seems to have a hint of scottish accent thrown in with some Indian twang? Is he doing a tenure in scotland for some reason?
ace1262 10 months ago 9
@ace1262 It's the Indian merging with his longyears in America.
Mayokitty7 10 months ago
@ace1262 Yeah, this guy officially has the most bad ass accent period.
breakingthe4thwall 1 month ago
Did I just saw Richard Branson in the audience?
dhamirism 10 months ago 5
awesome talk... that guy's rolling 'r's are crazy!
jinchoung 10 months ago 3
Dude! That is one funky, cool accent. Like a NY city/Hindu mix.
rhinobird 10 months ago
here is this... mass of jelly.. you can hold in the palm of your hand.. and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space..
PaintSlinger99 10 months ago
here is this... mass of jelly.. you can hold in the palm of your hand.. and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space.. WHAT ARE WE! jeez
PaintSlinger99 10 months ago
u deserve a nobel prize!
manikumar72 10 months ago
23 people have damage to their fusiform gyrus.
sbhattacherya 10 months ago 5
Vilayanur Ramachandran is tops! Thanks Vilayanur!
4000angstroms 10 months ago
mahn this vid jst blew my mind, LITERALLY, watchd it at 2 AM and now im scared of my own brain!!, this stuff was raw intel
ankitR114 10 months ago 3
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rasesh1000 11 months ago
All my neuroanatomy and neurophysiology proffesors should have been there !
soccermania90 11 months ago
Richard Branson @23:42
prit0sidd 11 months ago 2
fron his name he sounds like an indian but his accent is so unindian
johnnyboyfart 11 months ago
Yup, he's Indian. He's been in US for a long time after finishing his undergrad in India. That's why his accent is not typically Indian (akin to a new immigrant), but you can tell when he emphasizes certain words such as "holy grail" with an elongated "r".
mcaj007 11 months ago 2
@mcaj007 he studied in England before going to the US. His grammar is way too good for Americans; most of whom are utterly idiotic and think words like "snuck" and "architecting" are words.
MahaVakyas 9 months ago
@MahaVakyas Whereas people like you are extremely prone to stereotyping and maintaining backward traditions. It's people like you that bring shame to us Indians (and people in general) who see people as *people* rather than instruments of tradition and power.
Anyway, damn good Tedtalk. This was one of the better ones, for sure.
ashjk92 9 months ago
@ashjk92 you stupid cunt.. what the fuck is "backward tradition" you stupid untouchable? mingling with untouchable vermin (jews/christians/muslims) is really backward.. keeping with your own kind is the best for all.. even animals follow that..go watch some more "bollywood" and mingle with those filthy vermin..
MahaVakyas 9 months ago
@MahaVakyas Swearing, insulting, and racism, I wonder why your brain didn't escape such petty forms of expression. Intruiging.
JayDee98765 9 months ago
@MahaVakyas
"even animals follow that"
Exactly. And since we're animals too, humans mate with humans. Caucasians, Africans, Asians etc. are of the same species, hence intermingling is possible and their offspring are fertile (unlike horses and donkeys which produce mules, for example).
Diemedes 8 months ago
@Diemedes genes need to flow !!!
mieszkomieszko 7 months ago
@MahaVakyas Wow. Someone is bitter. Oh well, no use arguing with stupid people over the internet...
I loved his material on synesthesia especially. At the lab I worked at (I'm just a lowly undergrad RA), they had been doing a lot of cog sci research involving musicians and synesthesia, and it was fantastically cool. I'd love to meet this guy, I hear he's set up camp at UCSD...lucky bastards.
ashjk92 7 months ago
they did the mirror box thing on House !
6050ernul 11 months ago
Dr. Ramachandran is such a great speaker. I wish Dr. Gazzaniga had his charisma.
KingOfMadCows 1 year ago
Why did one "most popular comment" compare this doctor to Justin Bieber instead of comparing him to "Prince"?
MikeNube 1 year ago
When does the band start to play?
dirtydonki 1 year ago
jesus that floor tom is at a horrid angle!
loosehead89 1 year ago
hes wrong about human brain cells , no ptotoplasm but cytoplasm sir,,,,,
prezobummer 1 year ago
Very interesting, and captivating Speech, by Dr. Ramachandran. Thanks
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Setupaty 1 year ago
Is that Richard Branson on the right of the screen at 23:41 ?
ashwinnarayanVlog 1 year ago
An extraordinary mind Ramachandran has, I am 26, though a very late starter, I intend on going to medical school to study neurology. I want to work with intelligent people like this man.
jewelofakate 1 year ago 6
How does this not conflict with the concept of neurplasticity, where the function of the brain is said to be remapped to the undamaged regions?
marsbarz 1 year ago
die humans! die!
TimUrgent 1 year ago
Great talk. The only thing Ramachandran is missing from his brilliant analyses is that consciousness is fundamental. The human brain is unique and powerful, no doubt; but it was formed and works through consciousness, and not the reverse. Philosophers and some scientists (alan watts, amit goswami, etc), are supporting this, as they're finding more and more evidence for it.
asswaxer100 1 year ago
@asswaxer100 consciousness is no knockout-criteria. It's just a part of the system the brain uses.
Even the opposite. A conciousness, as defined, requires a subconciousness. Otherwise they wouldn't be seperated. As long as there are processes, that you aren't aware, no dilemma is created.
liquidminds 1 year ago
@liquidminds Does this mean u agree with me about consciousness being fundamental or no
asswaxer100 1 year ago
@asswaxer100 the conciousness is important. it's the most modern part of our brain, that is important for beeing human. But It's 'only' a layer on top of the subconcious, that implements all basic functions of our body.
Our Conciousness wouldn't be able to handle ALL decisions the subconcious makes every second. So we wouldn't be able to survive, without our subconciousness.
His speech basically covers the subconcious, that's why he neither agrees, nor disagrees with your statement.
liquidminds 1 year ago
@liquidminds is subconciousness possible without a brain? what do u think?
asswaxer100 1 year ago
@asswaxer100 it depends on your definition of a brain. At least it needs braincells...
I'm not sure if you are implying the subconcious to be like a "soul" that has no physical body, but if that's the case: yes: brain needed.
liquidminds 1 year ago
@asswaxer100
Is bread possible without wheat, what do you think?
smrndoff 1 year ago
@smrndoff the wheat is the consciousness, and the bread the brain.
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smrndoff 1 year ago
@smrndoff Bread is made of wheat, we agree on that. But for your analogy to work, then consciousness would have to be made of brain. That's not the case, and therefore you've used a false analogy...I'm not talking abt nothingness, nor am I talking about "being consciouss"--that does require a brain, true. I'm talking about an alternative viewpoint which is becoming more and more widely held: that consciousness is fundamental, not matter. (u can see amit goswami on youtube, as just 1 example)
asswaxer100 1 year ago
@asswaxer100
I don't accept that a person can be conscious without a brain. Without a life without a physical body.
So, if you're suggesting we live on after death, I'm afraid you will find no empathy from me. The intent of two people to create a child is not physical but without physicality, nothing happens. The merest flicker of consciousness / thinking required matter.
I'm as certain as I can be about anything that when your brain dies, thoughts die, consciousness dies. goswami or no.
smrndoff 1 year ago
@smrndoff Well if you're certain, then you must be right...
asswaxer100 1 year ago
@asswaxer100
Oh, please don't give up your dream so easily. I mean, it might be possible that something intangable flies out of our nostrils or eminates from our bodies after death. Of course, this 'something' would actually have to be 'nothing' (because if it weren't nothing it would include matter).
Perhaps nothing flies out of your nostril when you die and continues to think and feel things....just for you.
smrndoff 1 year ago
@smrndoff For someone who's so certain, you don't sound very content with what you believe. Or else why the ranting and raving? Btw, consciousness is Non- material (thoughts and images aren't things). if everything were made of matter, then consciousness wouldn't even exist. What you think doesn't affect me, but you ought to check your own arguments for logical inconsistencies... The dream thing was funny, thanks for the laugh.
asswaxer100 1 year ago
@asswaxer100 Did you watch the video? Consciousness, emotion, thought - it's all in the brain. It isn't a sacred essence, impervious to material damage. If your brain is injured, some aspect of you is changed. Thoughts and images may not be material 'things', but they are produced by your neurons, which are entirely material.
Shikamaru747 1 year ago
@Shikamaru747 Hi. Sure, the brain is the reason u have a personality, yes it's all in the brain. But consider this. The brain is made of material parts, like a chair. A chair doesn't produce anything unlike itself, but the brain does. How can a material object give rise to immaterial things? You may say that the brain is more complex, and that the interaction bt. the neurons generate thoughts. But if u say that, then u have to admit that it's a phenomenon just as mysterious as what I suggested.
asswaxer100 1 year ago
@asswaxer100 It isn't mysterious enough to declare it intangible. We already know how neurons interact, through electrical and chemical signaling (lol, wiki).
Also, thoughts and ideas are immaterial in the same way a computer program is. Granted, you can't touch them, but they has no existence apart from the hard-drive or server or fleshy brain they're stored on. And like a computer, the brain is a material object creating immaterial things.
Shikamaru747 1 year ago
@Shikamaru747 As for the bit about computers doing the same thing as the brain, I'll state my opinion now, that a computer will *never* be able to function like a brain, being self aware, etc. This is because it doesn't inherently contain the ability to generate consciousness; and modern science shows us that you can't get something from nothing; it had to have been there, latent, but involved, from the beginning.
Now I don't expect you to agree with me on this, I just wanted to state my point.
asswaxer100 1 year ago
@asswaxer100 Interesting opinion. I've always thought that the brain was little more than an advanced computer. We've already managed to simulate a rat brain, from what I hear. As to getting something from nothing, that analogy isn't quite appropriate. For one thing, we're *always* starting from something. No one's planning to take an empty vacuum and conjure a consciousness out of it. If we can create an artificial network of a few billion neurons or so, that's a different story.
Shikamaru747 1 year ago
He has the charisma of a rock star!
frepi 1 year ago
what's the song at the end, anybody?
Horoperse1 1 year ago
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jezmundberserker 1 year ago
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jezmundberserker 1 year ago
I love these TED lectures. Absolutely brilliant.
ReDhAvEn1993 1 year ago
ASSHOLE I R4ILLY DONT LIKE THE MAJORITYTM OF YOU OR MORE IMPOTANTLY, HOW ALL TRGISA SHIT RELates 6o me...because...I cann speak Tagalog, too,you know?!?!
tommylacroix 1 year ago
ASSHOLE
tommylacroix 1 year ago
he's saying everything 5 times!
JohnnyHacksaw 1 year ago
@KilluaXIII Think about how stupid the average person is... ... ... ... Then realize, half of them are stupider than that.
mchaplya1 1 year ago 3
for every person watching this video there are TWO THOUSAND idiots watching a clip of justin bieber. at this point it's apparent that there's something wrong with the world...
KilluaXIII 1 year ago 134
@KilluaXIII
now write that on a beiber video and you get 5,000 people calling you a hater, which I myself don't agree with
grimslider75 1 year ago 2
@grimslider75
I actually went and took the moment to write what KilluaXlll said on a Bieber video. I don't think people had the mental capacity to understand what I was talking about...
rm06c 1 year ago
@KilluaXIII ... I hate to say it but you are absolutely right. Here's an example: last month I saw two youtube clips: one by a physicist about parallel universes and the other was an X factor clip of some kid singing. The physicist has 2,000 views. The kid singing on X factor? 10 million!! It's a sad reality and reflects very badly on the general intelligence of humanity.
StillnessofMind 1 year ago 3
@KilluaXIII his popularity grows every time you mention his name, please stop
LeetKillaDethKrew 1 year ago 14
@KilluaXIII oh please for the love of whatever made us, stop using Justin Bieber as a scapegoat on Youtube videos. It's not funny and it's not clever.
drplbiftin 1 year ago
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@KilluaXIII never say never...
EternalEffect 10 months ago
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@KilluaXIII neeeeeverrr say neverrrrrrr
EternalEffect 10 months ago
@KilluaXIII People are generally stupid.
kaupunkimoukari 10 months ago
@kaupunkimoukari true, but the sad thing is the reason for it. everyone has incredible potential which usually is completely locked up and buried under layers of bullshit...
KilluaXIII 10 months ago
@KilluaXIII
seriously there is something really wrong with the world !!!
nikhilsikri 10 months ago
@KilluaXIII and you sir are prime example #1
GenusCastor 10 months ago
Justin Bieber is a smarter version of Vilayanur Ramachandran in another dimension.
TheAccurate1 9 months ago
@KilluaXIII Its interesting how this comment has gone viral.
Ialwaysratezero 9 months ago
@KilluaXIII Well that's because YouTube is run by teenagers and less who will go on and hate on this kid. It's either that they're jealous of him or that they have some form of subconcious love. idk. I'm 14 and I'm scared for my generation. If this is us now, I see a lot of wars coming up.
kidkong584 9 months ago
@KilluaXIII It is to signify the value of your comment which i also think everytime and everyday......
I HAVE MY YOUTUBE USERNAME BECAAUSE OF THIS REASON ONLY i.e..." worldsacrap"
worldsacrap 9 months ago
@KilluaXIII There's something wrong with the world when you begin to criticize others over such small matters.
LightxEdge 9 months ago
@KilluaXIII watching pop science videos simplified for uneducated idiots surely is osmething that's wrong with the world, huh?
SardonicFox1994 8 months ago
@SardonicFox1994 By watching these videos, those "uneducated idiots" are becoming educated human beings. I'd love a suggestion as to a better place to start than Ramachandran, he's a genius to even be able to explain this material to laymen.
Cazador 8 months ago
The mirror box part instantly made me think of House and the episode where he used a mirror box to cure the pain in his asshole neighbor's phantom hand.
TheIronAtheist 1 year ago
but if wen his mom talks to him in person wudnt he b able to tell tha is indeed his mom orrr...wut?
LoCochillinn 1 year ago
Was that Richard Branson in the audience?
OldSmellyCrotch 1 year ago
the mirror thing been on House MD.
guzsaj 1 year ago
utterly engaging
costa020 1 year ago
too much repetition
bhanurao 1 year ago
Ramachandran is a mind fuck.
gtg309v 1 year ago
His book 'Phantoms in the Brain' is probably the best neurology book out there.
Rooiebert 1 year ago 2
latent beastiality...lollolo...super genius...fucking brilliant
Bockatadi 1 year ago
Apparently some mutants in the audience can't differentiate kiki from buba. Hahah!!!!
Mrmoc7 1 year ago
I have synesthesia but it is mostly with words and letters, not numbers.
Imogen1885 1 year ago
I love the way he rolls his 'R's so naturally
ooLevityoo 1 year ago 5
People know which one is Kiki and which one is Bubba not because they associate the sound with the image, but because the associate the shape of the letters K and B with with the images, one is sharp and pointy like K and the other is round like B.
xavierpaquin 1 year ago
@xavierpaquin Hmmm... perhaps this is the reason WHY "K" and "B" (and O,P,etc.) look like they do.
GMLSX 1 year ago
@GMLSX Then the question is: are the "k" and the "b" sounds universally, or at least generally, represented in other languages with the same kinds of shapes as in the roman alphabet?
xavierpaquin 1 year ago
@xavierpaquin I was going to say the same thing. Maybe if we did the test with people who only spoke a language that had different written letters for "k" and "b" it would be more scientifically sound
velocity246 1 year ago
@velocity246 good idea
xavierpaquin 1 year ago
Damnit, he did such a great job, but he kept repeating himself D:
DEMONIIIK 1 year ago
@DEMONIIIK Repetition helps the mind remember. Ever read doctor Seuss?
azimuth457 1 year ago
This is like entertainment for me. So informative and he tells it in a way that captivates your attention. Great stuff.
unlearn15 1 year ago 6
22 people where not in their right state of mind.
hossamrida 1 year ago
This was the shit.
anthyo2 1 year ago
Should I be worried, if I thought Booba was pink and Kiki was blue? Did anyone else get anything like that?
hakunamatata414 1 year ago
If we had teachers like this everyone would go to school and actually enjoy learning.
Joeri12 1 year ago 111
@Joeri12 but until we have teachers like that, the old saying stays true. "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach".....
liquidminds 1 year ago
@Joeri12 The world is backwards and upside down for a reason but you can still be your own teacher if you're fortunate enough. And that is the whole aim of an education, to teach us how to think rather than what to think.
EveryTongueShallTell 1 year ago 50
@EveryTongueShallTell
The word is "autodidact" and, although I'm not one myself, I do teach myself new things all the time. I have been fortunate enough to obtain a Bachelor's degree already so I have received formal education but I've learned a lot more from informal education (things such as watching this video by Ramachandran) than I did in college.
andyrooney12 7 months ago
@andyrooney12 Neither formal or informal education can show you yourself. The true 'I' is silent. A silent teaching. So is it possible to you learn in absolute inner stillness and silence? You then become the teacher and the pupil which is the actual happening, so do it now and see or block yourself from learning.
EveryTongueShallTell 7 months ago
@Joeri12 There ARE teachers like this...in universities all across the country.
thermonuclearwarfare 11 months ago
@thermonuclearwarfare I'm aware there are teachers like that, but perhaps only 1% of the total amount of teachers if we are lucky.
Joeri12 11 months ago
@Joeri12 I HAD THIS PROFESSOR AT UCSD!!!! :)
dropandlongD 10 months ago
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@Joeri12 > If we had teachers like this everyone would go to school and actually enjoy learning.
We are able to enjoy this partly because of the way school presently is.
bummers 10 months ago
the real gregory house
Jerrez 1 year ago
@Jerrez House used that mirror box trick actually LOL.
magnificoamar 1 year ago
@magnificoamar I know!!! and I love this guy's RRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Jerrez 1 year ago
@magnificoamar
Yea, I thought I saw that in House but I wasn't sure. So this was Ramachandran's child? Damn. Holy shit!
Mrmoc7 1 year ago 3
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@Mrmoc7 What do you mean "this was Ramachandran's child?"
dreamingWisdom 7 months ago
Y'know i slept in virtually every neuroscience lecture in my class last year, but now I"m hanging on to every word this guy's saying...
Brom24 1 year ago 3
23:43 Sir Richard Branson. Bravo.
thesocalwholesaler 1 year ago 2
love the bmw commercial
cobaltdan9 1 year ago
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why can't i hear anything?:S
greenidioot 1 year ago
I like how he pronounces his Rs =D
ElementzUK 1 year ago 2