How it feels to have a stroke
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Mar 13, 2008
http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
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amazing but i want to know does it hurt
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@mikesomething She experienced it not you. Who are you to judge? What she said had NOTHING to do with religion.
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I want to turn this into a monologue, or even a one person show. this is SO beautiful and inspiring!
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I had an argument with a stroke victim, it was pretty one sided.
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certain words make me phisically tear up. amazing :D
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feeeeeeeeeel it
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@dgscol sorry, i meant "you cant say that her mind, as an emergent phenomena of the brain, WAS malfunctioning"
Sorry for that mistake.
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@dgscol Well, you can loose all notion of who you are and remember it perfectly later, thats what happens when you take some psychedelics. Also, maybe her brain was malfunctioning, but you cant say that her mind, as an emergent phenomena of the brain, wasn't malfunctioning, it was just functioning differently. Its impossible to call the functioning of the mind as good or bad, since there are no standards for it.
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@super6plx If you have had a spiritual journey, you would have recognized all she said as a really accurate description of one: expansion or loose of the boundaries of the self, euphoria, loving everything as it is, realizing that you are one with the universe, etc.
A spiritual journey is just another state of consciousness, as any neuropsychologist would tell you. Also, alcohol kills more neurons than most hallucinogenics, why, then, is not illegal?
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Spiritual journey through stroke = Thunderous Applause
Spiritual journey through mushrooms = Federal Offense
IvoryGuru 3 weeks ago 37
This is one of the most inspirational speeches I've ever heard.
derekxnl 2 weeks ago 9