Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind

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http://www.ted.com Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
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  • this guys accent is fucking awesome.

  • 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?

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  • The power within our brains to adapt is really something to marvel.

  • my brain s crazy

  • @ace1262 Yeah, this guy officially has the most bad ass accent period.

  • At 5:01, a little center of right when the camera points to the audience: is that Larry David? Looks just like him.

  • At 15:28 he completely cured my cold as all the mucous came out laughing. MCOL.

  • 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

  • well sharing

  • @cyclotane

    hmm well..he's a controversial man

  • @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?

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