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> [There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/there-is-no-real-independent-self-aloof-from-other-human-beings/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

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## Other authors on Aloof

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## More by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

> [The brain abhors discrepancies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/the-brain-abhors-discrepancies/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/it-may-well-be-our-brains-are-wired-up-to-be-slightly-more-optimistic/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/if-you-re-a-thinking-person-the-liver-is-interesting-but-nothing-is/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/even-today-no-computer-can-understand-language-as-well-as-a-three/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/without-ducking-responsibility-what-s-wrong-with-medicine-today-is/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/there-is-no-real-independent-self-aloof-from-other-human-beings/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/a-culture-without-mythology-is-not-really-a-civilisation/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/the-boundary-between-neurology-and-psychiatry-is-becoming/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/the-visual-system-of-the-brain-has-the-organization-computational/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/remember-that-politics-colonialism-imperialism-and-war-also-originate/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/the-minute-you-succumb-to-outside-pressure-you-cease-to-be-creative/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/when-i-speak-of-artistic-universals-i-am-not-denying-the-enormous/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/great-art-allows-you-to-transcend-your-mortal-frame-and-to-reach-for/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/lofty-questions-about-the-mind-are-fascinating-to-ask-philosophers/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/here-is-this-three-pound-mass-of-jelly-you-can-hold-in-the-palm-of/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

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