This guy’s intelligence is coming out from his ears. His heavy accent does not prevent him from his perfect English language delivery, using no verbal crutches: you know, and then, etc. And how informative his lecture was, with comedic twists here and there to top it off. He received a well-deserved standing ovation. I have a friend with a finger amputation with phantom pain. Hopefully the mirror box can help him.

my, he's a genius! I've read dozens of articles on synesthesia and gave a couple presentations myself, but his level of explaining the matter at hand is just astonishing; I wish I could have this same kind of confidence when speaking: the energy is just radiating from him.

I bought his book called "the tell-tale brain a neuroscientist's quest for what makes us human" and I haven't finished it yet but it is astonishing how our brain works! Definitely a recommendation

VS Ramachandran arguably one of the best cognitive neuropsychologist of the modern era !!!

@hetaldoshi4108

3 жыл бұрын

Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

@hetaldoshi4108

3 жыл бұрын

Ssssssssss

@hetaldoshi4108

3 жыл бұрын

Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

@hetaldoshi4108

3 жыл бұрын

Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

@hetaldoshi4108

3 жыл бұрын

Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

The first item I ever bought online many years ago was the book he wrote, "Phantoms in the Brain". I loved the way he explained and narrated each cases. He makes you fall in love with neuropsychology. Amazing man

this man is a fucking genius

The tenor of his voice and how he explains thing reminds me of Feynman.

@thelastcube.

3 жыл бұрын

that might just be one of the best compliments he's gotten

@eima7644

2 жыл бұрын

It does!

Great talk! Also, at 23:41 you can see Richard Branson!

@navigate2676

4 жыл бұрын

yup noticed that too ahaha

We watched the entire thing during my psych lecture and it was probably one of the most interesting supplementary videos I've ever watched in my lectures. I'm glad the prof let us watch the whole thing without skipping around.

@imadetheurllonger

10 жыл бұрын

Do you have professor Nolan by any chance?

@chakravarthyshanker4040

6 жыл бұрын

Bump (just curious)

@surbhisinghi9929

4 жыл бұрын

V.S ramachandran is my professor and it's cool AF

@Daffodil956

Жыл бұрын

​@@surbhisinghi9929what a genius

@piposcat

2 ай бұрын

Where does he teach?

Genius and one who made neuroscience accessible to anyone interested. Amazing, beyond words!

What a genius! I can't wait to try this on my dad's painful arm. Much obliged to Dr Ramachandran. Every time I hear his speech, it feels like I'm getting smarter. A real pleasure to know and listen to this great scientist.

@guruprasadpk8709

6 жыл бұрын

Jessie Hsu HAVE YOU TRIED IT...

@cutifat

Жыл бұрын

@@Rokmononov I think it would if I dad had been willing to try...

One of the best neuroscientist ever. I just read his book Phantoms in the brain. Amazing book.

Im a current student at CSU, Monterey Bay and when I saw this took place at Monterey, I felt a sense of pride but also jealous that I wasn't there to hear the TED talk. Can't wait to start pursuing graduate school.

Such a brilliant guy. Sad that such talks get views in the order of thousands but rebecca black gets millions.

@Joeltheactor

7 жыл бұрын

that's just because their are more children on the internet. Share and it will have more views. That's what children love to do..share

@Suave007

5 жыл бұрын

Hip hop is so bad now.. And I'm a millennial, the effects it has on some of my peers... Oh boy. But there's hope, for the # Keeping of America being Great is happening. Just as the midterm elections approach... God I hope those pedos burn.

'The latent bestiality in all humans'. I lost it

@dhriajbhandari

2 жыл бұрын

did you not understand that V Ramachandran is showing how ridiculous Freud's explanation actually is?

one of the funnier ted talks I've seen. He kept it interesting and informative.

this guy is brilliant - he's been blowing my mind since the 80's. About 7 years ago, my right leg had to be amputated. The damage to my leg was so extensive they had to perform a procedure which was termed a "radical" amputation. In other words, my entire right leg including my entire right hip were removed. Basically, there is nothing below that part of my torso which you might refer to as your waist. Pretty radical, indeed. Since then, I have experienced some truly bizzare phantom limb sensations...everything from tiny, barely detectable feelings of applied pressure, to varying degrees of "pins and needles" sensations, all the way up to bouts of excrutiating, and often blinding, pain. What's been especially strange is most of the time, regardless of intensity or duration, these phantom sensations are location specific to an extremely precise degree. For instance, I might feel a throbbing ache in my upper (nonexistent) leg, say in the region of the lower thigh, or a sharp stabbing sensation like a pin stab on my knee..on the outer, lower portion right at the edge of my kneecap...in other words, the exact point where the pin pierces my flesh...or the toe next to my pinkie toe itches terrifically. I experience these sensations on a daily basis. At times it becomes quite maddening.

@dominiquequirke3802

5 жыл бұрын

Wow so interesting! Have you tried the mirror work?

@sundhukumar

4 жыл бұрын

Really sorry for your loss .. God bless you...... appreciate your courage.....

@ramadeshraju3391

2 жыл бұрын

I wish you only happiness and relief from all your pain. Please look after yourself well and stay healthy always.

This is one of my favorite talks from TED. The brain is so fascinating.

I love how he rolls his Rs. Good speaker. Really enjoyed his book....I think it was called Phantoms in the Brain or something like that. Read it many years ago and I still think about it to this day.

This is like entertainment for me. So informative and he tells it in a way that captivates your attention. Great stuff.

"There is no disembodied pain" That's the sentence that got my attention 🤔🤔

I can watch this million times over!! Pure brilliance!

This video used to be called "A journey to the center of your mind." Why was it renamed?

This is pure genius. I remember him coming to our college (He's from the same Indian city as me) and I remember the entire audience leaving the hall in a complete daze. Brilliant stuff!!

I love these Tedtalks videos. Great presentation. From a young age I learned that different chords on my guitar had different colours and I tried to explain it to people and they just couldn't get it. Thanks for sharing this great video.

Y'know i slept in virtually every neuroscience lecture in my class last year, but now I"m hanging on to every word this guy's saying...

How wonderful to get such quality information! I sustained a severe injury and lost many of my cognitive functions. Very intersting

Fantastic talk. Vilayanur Ramachandran - a great book Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind

this man is so brilliant! i really enjoy reading his articles in SA Mind.

That's exactly why I am here. But when I started to realize that this guy was so awesome and that he knew exactly what he was talking about, I started to watch the rest of his videos and read more about him. The man is a genius in his field. Thank you Kojima for bringing us here.

best indian neurologist I've ever encountered

one of the few amazing videos i've been required to watch for a class.

This is great. These TED talks should be mandatory high school curriculum; think about how many young kids would be inspired to pursue paths they wouldn't even have known about.

@dynanananaay8774

Жыл бұрын

Ikr!!

I like this guy. His style, energy, passion, and curiosity in his field strongly remind me of Richard Feynman. I just read the 1st chapter of Pantoms in the Brain and cant believe how terribly interesting the subject matter is.

Fitting all of that into 25minutes. He's brilliant.

mahn this vid jst blew my mind, LITERALLY, watchd it at 2 AM and now im scared of my own brain!!, this stuff was raw intel

Yeah, truely brilliant work he's doing.

Awesome speech by *Ramachandran*

I love listening to this guy so much

Simply amazing... Once of the best TED videos. :-)

im really glad i found this

it's 2022, i'm watching this talk for probably 30th time, and it's still as fascinating (and amusing) as it was in 2007 when I watched it for the first time.

Rama's delight in the subject matter is the secret sauce. We are blissfully captured.

Talk about creative thinking with regard to the mirror box. Amazing...

That last example he showed enlightened me a little bit. I often do exactly what he describes. I've never known what it really was or why I do it nor was I really able to explain it.

Thank you for posting this. The player on the original site doesn't seem to be working out well for me and I really wanted to see this video so I searched KZread.

Excellent talk. Ramachandran made it extremely interesting.

I love how he rolls r's. He's fun to listen to. :D

@ramadeshraju3391

2 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly how we in south of India speak. It just makes me love the talk even more

23:42 - Richard Branson! How's that for face recognition?!

very lucid and informative talk.thanks

relieving such pain does seem nobel prize worthy!

What a total legend

GREAT COLOURING ON A GREY DAY!

Wow, this was really amazing!

The power within our brains to adapt is really something to marvel.

Watching it was worth it...😊 One of the best tedtalk...,

My God. What an amazing person.

this guy is amazing!!

w o w i am gobsmacked!!!! this guy is truly gifted

simply great !!!

Anyone who liked this would love his book "Phantoms in the Brain". Same kind of stuff just more detail and variety along with some really amazing implications and theories that weren't brought up in this speech. Go Rama!

awesome talk and God knows why but such a good to hear voice

@demydevil

10 жыл бұрын

God used to say unbelieveable?

I love the way he rolls his 'R's so naturally

Awesome talk!

You, Sir, are a genius!

Back when ted was really cool

@videos4sharat

4 жыл бұрын

True i agree

I am an Engineer yet comes to watch it every year.

This guy is awesome :D wonderful talk!

Brilliant as always.

Ramachandran is pure genius

One of the best videos

Thanks for this

Love his accent !

Amazing !!!

That was SO AMAZING. Now I want to do what this guy does for a living.

@bedouialhoussein8486

2 жыл бұрын

do u know ?

It's difficult to imagine "dead stuff" (or rather nonliving) becoming "living" but this really does seem to be what happens. The discovery about 10 years ago of Riboswitches (see wikipedia) and the further eludication of RNA-catalysed reactions is starting to give us some insight in to a possible living system with only RNA and small molecules, this is a HUGE step towards being able to explain how life developed originally. The difference between simple RNA systems and whole cells is staggering!

Inspiring troubleshooting approach to understanding arguably the most important organ for humans.

I am suffering from a phantom that VS Ramachandran is the best Ted Speaker.

Riveting talk about human cognition. His passion for his field rubs on you. You should be lucky if you are one of his students.

Amazing indeed

This guy is a true genius.

Excellent!! Really, really good!!!

I have hit jackpot. This was very insightful.

Interesting stuff I wish it had some kind of great point.

Deeply engaging!

Such an interesting talk.

Amazing.

he's the man!

The man is a legend

Love this guy :)

I love this guy.

1. When I wake up after falling asleep listening to a radio discussion, for a brief moment I don't understand the sounds coming from the radio, but then I remember it's English. Who am I for this brief moment? Punch me when I wake up and I'll feel it! The experiencer is there instantly, before any understanding of who you are, where you are, or what planet you're on. I believe it may be the experiencer who goes through the brain and assembles the character from the info inside. Continued...

awesome!

i wish i had his genius!

Really clear explanation also for thos who are not do familiar with brain functioning.

Yes it was bruv. Prof Ramachandran is a top man.

great talk

That was really informative!

fantastic ty, God bless u my fr :)

Great talk. The only thing Ramachandran is missing from his brilliant analyses is that consciousness is fundamental. The human brain is unique and powerful, no doubt; but it was formed and works through consciousness, and not the reverse. Philosophers and some scientists (alan watts, amit goswami, etc), are supporting this, as they're finding more and more evidence for it.