Part 1 - Phantoms In The Brain (Episode 2)

Episode two of a two-part BBC-4 special program hosted by neurologist V.S. Ramachandran that explains his key findings in certain instances of brain damage that have long been viewed as mere curiosities by the scientific community. This episode focuses on prosopagnosia, the Capgras delusion, and temporal lobe epilepsy.

My apologies for the audio being slightly off, the black bar at the bottom of the video, as well as the temporary video defects; this was the only copy of the video I could find.

This is Part 1 of 5.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Neuroscience
• Philosophy
• of
• Mind
• Neurology
• Brain
• Science
• Capgras
• delusion
• temporal
• lobe
• epilepsy

[yogurtking]

probably not.

notice how it's "puzzled philosophers" but not theologians. That's because theologians don't ask questions.

Had this guy been born in the middle ages he would have been locked in a cell by priests.

[bluebeard2]

He'd make a pretty crappy pictionary player

[yuriythebest]

"all of us praying to religion" - ehhm excuse us some of us are atheists here

[on3night]

Lmao 6:23 over and over

[pumitaproductions]

ramachandran is wrong in one these... for the guy at the end, the difference isnt between "seeing and knowing".. its not.. its "knowing and naming". i bet you the guy knows the feeling and personality of rhinos the same way any other person does, he just cant put a label on it... hence the phrase "i know it but i cant name it". so its not a difference between seeing and knowing, but between knowing and naming.

[fritspas]

He had a 'hunch' that Phillips naming problem was a...

Is that some sort of camel based pun?

[gatogreensleeves]

What is Philip's condition called?

[avdinesh]

@bluebeard2 i dont think your right brain said that... i am typing this 2 years hence you made your comment... care to reply if you may.. d.rao@imperial.ac.uk

[avdinesh]

@bluebeard2 i dont think your right brain is saying that

[JonahTorn]

@JonahTorn I meant "what things are" not "what things as" oops.

[JonahTorn]

@mrpossibilities Interesting point, but he did accept the name giraffe when he read it, so not naming things may involve seeing and recalling and saying what things as recalled with sight. Remember later they will show with man Capgras' delusion and sometimes they can recognize people by voice, but not when they look at them.