Consciousness, Qualia, and Self (V.S. Ramachandran)

Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at UCSD, discusses consciousness, qualia, and self.

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Science & Technology

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• consciousness
• qualia
• self
• brain
• Ramachandran

[nothingnesswithouten]

Sad that after that this fascinating talk, youtube suggests I check out Deepak Chopra next.

[doublew84]

I think he is into the letter R....."RRRRRREFLECT..."

[KnowKnot]

@nothingnesswithouten Worse than sad. Ramachandran is a international jewel. To put that immoral creep's near his is a travesty.

[soldatheero]

@1simonmatthews What produces the experience? "There is one real birth and one real death. You are born once and you die only once. What is the real birth? It is the advent of individuality through a glimmer of the first most finite consciousness, which transfixed cognizance of limitation into the unlimited. What is the real death? It is consciousness getting free from all limitations, it is liberation. . . Therefore I say, die for God and you will live as God." Meher Baba

Study him and..

[My5tuff4u]

Interesting view,one for my favs.

[yvchawla]

What you experience, think, cognise is the Truth, is actuality 'What should be' enters as an illusion as if there is a separate entity apart from operation. The format of operation is challenge and response from moment to moment. The one who discusses is himself bound by this format. When one oneself sees one's limit, one's operation-the whole dimension changes.

Y V Chawla

Fundamental Expressions

[winstono75]

@nothingnesswithouten Why is that sad? It is relevant. If you don't appreciate Chopra it's because of a fault in you, not in Chopra.

[perfecto25]

this guy has the best pronunciation of the letter 'R' ever.

RRrrrrreally imprrrrresive

[1simonmatthews]

What produces this "experiencer"? What makes me the experiencer? If it was the brain, then cloning me should mean that I would be able to experience from the point of view of the new brain, a bit like being reborn. But I don't think that would occur, instead a new experiencer would emerge. Even if my memory was wiped clean, I would still be the experiencer of my life, even though I wouldn't remember who I was, but an exact copy of my brain wouldn't be me. So what makes me the experiencer?

[MegaContented]

@nothingnesswithouten masses are as....