Part 3 - 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 3 of 3.

Category:

Education

Tags:

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

[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. :-)

[MononofuBlood]

Thank you very much for the upload.

[LennyBound]

Glad you liked it. :-)

[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. :-)

[gorfjorf2112]

This guy is awesome.

[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??!

[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

[pinkashram]

I could listen to this guy all night.

[GreatUnwashedMass]

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