Part 2 - V.S. Ramachandran at Beyond Belief 2.0

V.S. Ramachandran is a neurologist best known for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and psychophysics. He is currently the Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, Professor in the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

In this talk he discusses his work on finding the neural basis for synesthesia.

This is Part 2 of 3.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Neuroscience
• Philosophy
• of
• Mind
• psychophysics
• synesthesia
• behavioral
• neurology

[C0deZombie]

I always thought everyone saw colored numbers?

[sentstuff05]

I'd never heard of the colourblind synesthete before. That's amazing!

[TyeDyeTV]

@TyeDyeTV nevermind. continuing to the 3rd video answered my question

[TyeDyeTV]

The strangest part of watching this video was my reaction to his examples using numbers. I reacted much quicker to the numbers which were closer together than I did to those further apart. I wish I could ask him what that means!

[Cnupoc]

this guy is amazing :)

[dirtydonki]

LSD used to do this for me. :)

[Ashitakaandsan]

9:50 is that Matt Damon?

[albinoman13bt]

That's simplifying it too much. Genes certainly can favor societies. If they did not we would not be watching this video much less anything else social. That you can be taught by someone, you can teach someone else what you learn here, and you can speak to each other at all are all social developments.

[Fireeyes91]

Wow, this guy is amazing.

[jsmurfy89]

Yeah I have to agree