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Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind

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Description: 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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why can't i hear anything?:S

I like how he pronounces his Rs =D

Read "Consciousness Explained" by Dan Dennett if you like this.

@neelaakaasham We all read "alienese" differently depending on our own specific internal constructs, but I think you both describe the same thing. Different levels of "synesthesia" I guess. Nothing wrong with that. If all our brains were wired exactly the same we would BE the same. :)

Booba-kiki, anyone?

Inspiring troubleshooting approach to understanding arguably the most important organ for humans.

Tis guy is great. Hes so enthusiastic and intelligent. I read my first book of his Phantoms in the Brain, and he is as funny in that as he is in this. Funny, intelligent, and loving what he does...cant fault him.

Wait... did he say he wants to shag his Mum?

This guy is awesome!

@frvfilms thats what i thought

@AngelOne11 I also thought the first one was Kiki and the second the Buba. My intuitive reasoning goes like this: The first with smooth shape seems "feminine" to me, and Kiki is more "feminine" than Buba. The sharper shape has some sort of a relatively "masculine" character and it goes well with the "masculine" Buba. thats the instantaneous reasoning i came up with, and i kinda trust my intuitions.

@daleshankins I know for a fact it is, as I have seen it happen to my self! I've been saying this for years - but I do not have the technology, nor the ability to test it officially.

I was completely surprised by this ted talk. I saw a many ted talks but until now I completely ignored this one, pure on the fact, that he worn a leather coat. Because I thought that it was some cultural motivating self-help talk. Big mistake, Indeed

It would be interesting to see how/if the idea of "learned paralysis" is or is not linked to psychiatric conditions as it is to phantom limbs. Are there phantom mental images that cause ongoing psychiatric pain?

23:42 richard branson

Do you really got to pick on Freud? C'mon buddy

drunkard ;D

What's wrong with me. I thought Kiki is the first object and buba was the second shape. I think my thoughts were that reading form left to right and since he mentioned Kiki first and the first object was presented first then I linked it to that object. Did anyone have similar experience to mine?

this man is so brilliant! i really enjoy reading his articles in SA Mind.

House did this mirror experience in one episode

Such great info, thanks TED!

Am i the only one thinking that hes voice is like the voice of LEONIDAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??

As long as you are mentally focused on the actual guitar playing, there should be no interference with the facial expressions. If you are, however, focusing on how you appear, you will most likely lack in concentration on what's important; what you sound like.

@foathkent or is it better to just let my face do funny stuff because it is using both parts to concentrate.

when i play guitar ive been critizised for pulling a rediculous concentration face. i was just wondering if that concentration face is because of crosswiring between my finger cortex parts and my face cortex parts.theres tension on my temples and cheeks and my eyebrows flicker seemingly random. i dont mind having a silly concentration face if my skills were awesome butt they are not and im wondering if it would be better to practice not pulling faces to concentrate on my finger cortex part??

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