V.S. Ramachandran at Beyond Belief 2007 Part 1

An interesting talk by one of the world's top neurologists about synesthesia and metaphor and how they relate to structures in the brain.
http://thesciencenetwork.org/BeyondBelief2/

Other interesting Rama links -
http://psy.ucsd.edu/chip/ramabio.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Evolution
• God
• mind
• spirit
• soul
• brain
• thought
• belief
• neuro
• metaphor
• atheist
• synesthesia

[nag73]

I love the way he pronounces words beginning with R's

[riversonthemoon]

He a playful tigerrrr......

[lmcgee]

hahahahah it's a pleasure to be herRRREE hahah

dude i love this man, i wan't to be 1/17th as amazing as he is

[stevenslittlegoth]

Ashamed! I WISH I could claim such abilities. Especially as an artist I am SO envious!

And I agree, his playful Rrrrrrr's are delightful!

Fascinating video, thanks so much for posting!

[Wordlaw12]

They're GRRRREEAAT!!!

[andyrooney12]

@nag73

His accent is like a mix of Indian and Scottish...at least that's what it sounds like to me.

[Avendiel]

Epic Moustache.

[zetetic0void]

5:40 ... he said later that a normal person will take 20, 30 or 40 seconds to find the 2's amonst the 5's ... I found I could see those two's amongst the fives within a two or three seconds but I saw no colours for them. I'm a visual artist but I was surprised that the 2's seemed to pop out as obvious very quickly - but I see no colours with them.

[pronoia17]

I have numbe/letter synethesia as does my mother. We are both visual artists. The weird thing is that most of our colors match except my yellows are her pinks and my dark slate blues are violet for her! He said in part 4 that people with synethesia are likely to have a different unrelated type. I'm not sure if this is related, but I have a very hard time speaking a number I see or hear, and without reflection, will actually repeat different numbers.

[Sabohaque]

it took me like one second to see the 2s, but I definitely don't have synesthesia lol

[thesocalwholesaler]

2:58 Packed from wall to wall in there. Full house.

It's a shame those seats aren't filled.

[lordabacu]

@Esoparagon If Hindi is his first language, they have two 'R's, a guttural one (toungue at the back of the mouth) and a dental one (tongue near the teeth). In English, our 'r' is kind of in the middle.