Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandranis a neuroscientist known primarily for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionScientist
CountryIndia
thinking interesting brain
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
brain discrepancies
The brain abhors discrepancies.
war brain colonialism
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
brain mind asking
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.
humility brain matter
Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.
views fire brain
Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. ... It's as though this neuron is adopting the other person's point of view.
brain facts fiction
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
brain curiosity path
Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.
people brain answers
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
hands space brain
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 space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.
numbers people brain
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.
wired
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
knows metaphors
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
celebrated great
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.