Private Self Quotes by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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• Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic…
• A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
• There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other…
• Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and…
• Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness…
• There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected…
• Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such…
• The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
• Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I…
• The brain abhors discrepancies.
• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence…

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