"There is no real independent self, aloof from……" — 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 via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons."
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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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26 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.
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns…
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts…
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Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe…
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Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate…
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Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated…
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India…
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts,…
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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