Ode to the Brain! by Symphony of Science

mp3: http://symphonyofscience.com "Ode to the Brain" is the ninth episode in the Symphony of Science music video series. Through the powerful words of scientists Carl Sagan, Robert Winston, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jill Bolte Taylor, Bill Nye, and Oliver Sacks, it covers different aspects the brain including its evolution, neuron networks, folding, and more. The material sampled for this video comes from Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Jill Bolte Taylor's TED Talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran's TED Talk, Bill Nye's Brain episode, BBC's "The Human Body", Oliver Sachs' TED Talk, Discovery Channel's "Human Body: Pushing the Limits", and more.

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You may enjoy more of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor ( http://mystrokeofinsight.com ) at TED.com ( http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_t... ) and in her book "My Stroke of Insight" ( http://www.amazon.com/My-Stroke-Insig... )

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Enjoy!

~John
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[Robert Winston]
It's amazing to consider that I'm holding in my hands
The place where someone once felt, thought, and loved
For centuries, scientists have been battling to understand
What this unappealing object is all about

[Vilayanur Ramachandran]
Here is this mass of jelly
You can hold in the palm of your hands
And it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space

[Carl Sagan]
The brain has evolved from the inside out
Its structure reflects all the stages through which it has passed

[Jill Bolte Taylor]
Information in the form of energy
Streams in simultaneously
Through all of our sensory systems

And then it explodes into this enormous collage
Of what this present moment looks like
What it feels like
And what it sounds like

And then it explodes into this enormous collage
And in this moment we are perfect
We are whole and we are beautiful

[Robert Winston]
It appears rather gruesome
Wrinkled like a walnut, and with the consistency of mushroom

[Carl Sagan]
What we know is encoded in cells called neurons
And there are something like a hundred trillion neural connections
This intricate and marvelous network of neurons has been called
An enchanted loom

The neurons store sounds too, and snatches of music
Whole orchestras play inside our heads

20 million volumes worth of information
Is inside the heads of every one of us
The brain is a very big place
In a very small space

No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain
We can change ourselves
Think of the possibilities

[Bill Nye]
Think of your brain as a newspaper
Think of all the information it can store
But it doesn't take up too much room
Because it's folded

[Oliver Sacks]
We see with the eyes
But we see with the brain as well
And seeing with the brain
Is often called imagination

[Various]

[Robert Winston]
It is the most mysterious part of the human body
And yet it dominates the way we live our adult lives
It is the brain

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[TehChaosTLW]

Faith in Humanity: Restored.

[Shiyoken]

Only Carl Sagan can wander through the innards on the brain with his hands in his pockets and having a relaxed posture lol...

Great video, thanks!

[hoopsonwheels]

We see with the eyes but we see with the brain as well and seeing with the brain is often called imagination love that quote

[Seamless Robe]

Now that he has departed from this strange world he is a little ahead of me. Albert Einstein.

Most neurological investigations show action is indeed taken before becoming conscious of it.

Gravitational systems are the ash's of prior electrical systems.

Knowledge is limited where's Imagination embraces the entire world simulating progress and driving the course of evolution.

A man only starts to live when he can live outside himself. Albert Einstein

Ones inward light of Universal Mind is Positive

[Seamless Robe]

"All the forces of nature are forming out of E2 the locational spherical inward absorption density at right+angles compressing energy input + and outward emission density now of electromagnetic waves forming antimatter matter annihilation, or input+0/1-output electric charge and EM-fields, or resonance and interference as time unfolds the Fibonacci sequence from that individual ref-frame of spherical symmetries compressing+4-0-4+-decompressi­ng expanding spheres dividing gravity at right-angles."

[Seamless Robe]

E2 forms a square of future probability.

Space is a division 2pi of solidity M into entropy C2 the second law of thermodynamics, but also 4pi R2= a multiplication of Volume at expense of C2 of gravitational potential.

In the future Heisenberg's limit will be the required time cycle for quanta to exist.

The interval of the becoming moment reaches its threshold when C is cancelled out by its anti+C compressing+4-0-4+-decompressi­ng expanding spheres dividing gravity into this enormous collage now.!

[pilaman82]

This reminds me of the lamb brain massala I just had for dinner at a Pakistani restaurant.