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Naresh Ramachandran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNn_BpW1sGU

TED: Vilayanur Ramachandran on the workings of the mind has been added as a related post - related requested by deathcow.

Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran appears in the Ode To The Brain at about 20 seconds in: http://videosift.com/video/Symphony-of-Science-Ode-to-the-Brain

Fun. If you haven't already watched some of the talks that are in this, you should! Jill Bolte-Taylor's, Oliver Sachs's, and Ramachandran's are all great.

This phenomenon is very similar, albeit in contrast to, the phantom limb phenomenon, by which amputees continue to feel sensations in the part of their body that is no longer there. For this reason, neurologist, VJ Ramachandran has used a mirror box to help relieve phantom limb pain by using multisensory input to convince the mind that the amputated limb is not in distress.

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Watch this:
http://www.videosift.com/video/TED-Talks-V-S-Ramachandran-Mirror-neurons

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Very interesting, but Ramachandran really repeats himself too often during his lecture.

new rrrramachandran!

get it?
cuz' he rolls all his r's.
close your eyes, you'll swear it's sean connery.

This one
http://www.videosift.com/video/Frontline-The-Age-of-AIDS-1
and
http://www.videosift.com/video/Neurologist-V-S-Ramachandran-on-Anosognosia

Thanks.

Did you draw that graffiti? Looks pretty good.

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Thanks mauz, you're the best
Send me a link of the videos you would like promoted, and I'll be happy to do so.

In reply to this comment by mauz15:
Here you go. Next time just ask me. I'll pretty much upload anything if a sifter needs it.

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/webseries/watch/v18527228aFtN4xxq

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wow - I don't think I've ever heard someone so superficially right and yet so fundamentally wrong. Harris doesn't understand the first thing about brains, mind, spirituality, or any other human experience except on the most superficial level.

Beyond his equating of faith and religion (which are as different as ethics and law), he says things like doctors are more likely to be religious because they have to "play this language game" with people facing their own imminent mortality. Language game? The ultimate human experience - and he equates it with Scrabble.

I wonder if he really believes that the 9/11 attack was religiously motivated (as he claims here). Has he forfeited all of his mighty powers of cognition at the outset and drunk the NeoCon koolaid? It was never about religion - it's about money. As all wars have been. Religion is a lever that those in power often use to motivate others into doing their bidding. Is he really naïve enough to think that skillful leaders would not find other levers to sway willing followers in the absence of religion? It demonstrates a complete lack of human understanding.

There are more poorly conceived notions in this interview than siftbot will even give me space to mention in one comment. But I'll be happy to enumerate them over many comments if anyone is taken in by this snake-oil salesman. If you want some good insight into human behavior, go listen to this guy, or this one, or maybe best this one.

(and btw - regardless of anyone's belief system, I don't see anything here that gives the viewer any insight into how minds or brains work - thus removed from brain channel.)

Ramachandran is to the brain what Sasha Shulgin is to the mind.

Ramachandran is amazing. Great video.