Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Oct 23, 2007
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.
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The power within our brains to adapt is really something to marvel.
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my brain s crazy
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@ace1262 Yeah, this guy officially has the most bad ass accent period.
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At 5:01, a little center of right when the camera points to the audience: is that Larry David? Looks just like him.
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At 15:28 he completely cured my cold as all the mucous came out laughing. MCOL.
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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
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well sharing
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hmm well..he's a controversial man
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@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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this guys accent is fucking awesome.
ParadigmShift22 8 months ago 41
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?
ace1262 10 months ago 9