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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 10
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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.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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Science is like a love affair with nature an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.
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Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
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What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.
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Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.
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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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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.
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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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One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).
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With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.
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What do we mean by knowledge or understanding? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like understand, think, and indeed the word meaning itself.
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Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.
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A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.
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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 the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both.
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