Aesthetic Universals and the Neurology of Hindu Art - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Guest Speaker: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, UC San Diego
Director, Center for Brain and Cognition

This lecture is part of the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaelogy (CISA3) new exhibition entitled 'Masters of Fire: Hereditary Bronze Casters of South India'. CISA3 is part of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).

V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute. Ramachandran initially trained as a doctor and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. Ramachandrans early work was on visual perception but he is best known for his experiments in behavioral neurology which, despite their apparent simplicity, have had a profound impact on the way we think about the brain. He has been called The Marco Polo of neuroscience by Richard Dawkins and The modern Paul Broca by Eric Kandel.

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[ajitakamal]

@LogicalFlawDetector

War and slavery are generic. The West became wealthier (not superior in a generic way) than the rest o0f the world because of the influence of colonialism, which for 300 years transferred wealth from Asia, Africa and South America to Europe and the White colonies, allowing the West the right environment for the scientific enlightenment and the industrial revolution, built on cheap labor and free raw materials from the colonies.

[ImpagliazzoBR]

@LogicalFlawDetector "The British brought civilization to the savages in India." - All your jib-jabbery gets invalidated by this prejudiced, racist, narrow minded phrase. I'd rather a million times be descendant from these "savages" than to be descendant from westerners that deem others as savages merely because they can't understand them. And look what "civilization" has brought us, it's destroying nature. Great contribution by the west! Laughable.

[hyperbolaisagraph]

@G716M Get into a neurobiology PhD program!

[acidcrashguy]

@LogicalFlawDetector recently studied the history of vaccination. It seems that the British stole the cow pox vaccine by observing Indian villagers and commercialized it in Europe to make the small pox vaccine. Secondly constitutional democracy has been a big failure, Rule of Law ( go read history again). Actually i just think you need education.

[G716M]

The Indus Valley Civilization is now in Pakistan and India and the part that I and other people who are Punjabis and even people from the Western Himalyas (Kashmiris) and ppl from Delhi are the descendants of those people. Its Really cool.

[G716M]

can someone tell me how to become a neurobiologist im currently an undergraduate student. in Canada



[SenGupta2]

@LogicalFlawDetector

Mostly I.T. fCode coolies Asians BPO and H123B Visa clamoring here one comes back with a degree and insignificantly appointed by a indifferent university goes into the Brahmin Chanting in a language he himself does not understand l..How does chanting help It is repetitive nature to establish brain connections developing ability to focus concentrate more .So chanting be replaced b yfatalistics sons of chanters who come to be professors god for indic humiliation of past

[SenGupta2]

@jesschappellable Is religion neurology mauled by British & English Trying to validate back using modem west education of the same master which humiliated it Non Indian Non Hindu .There is no mention of synapse in Veda

Is religious by definition chess player and be winner for his religion

or Newton trying to build Christianity around Center of Gravity Amazing

construct has been going in history marrying the recent knowledge to correlate by being a neuro 'professor'God

[olivebates]

@deepupillai

ur my secondary hero :0

[ImpagliazzoBR]

@HyperBorealOperator Intolerance goes both ways, in this case the bigot happened to be a smug brit. ;)

I'm from Br, here you can also see nature pillaged and really filthy rivers while also having great natural resources. This is a problem of developing countries and not at all exclusive to India.

India happens to have both great nature and spiritual resources, I hope they rise to their rightful glory once again.

And yes, I'm a marxist because someone interested in youtube arguing says so. ;)

[jesschappellable]

Thank you, Ramachandran, for raising the paradigm bar. You are one of my heroes.