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“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.”
— Vilayanur RamachandranVS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
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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.”
— Vilayanur Ramachandran on the human brainVS Ramachandran: 3 clues to understanding your brain
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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 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.”
— Vilayanur RamachandranVS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
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“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.”
— Vilayanur RamachandranVS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
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“Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, ‘It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.’”
— Vilayanur RamachandranVS Ramachandran: 3 clues to understanding your brain
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“A polar bear, to evolve a coat, will take thousands of generations, maybe 100,000 years. A human being, a child, can just watch its parent kill another polar bear, and skin it and put the skin on its body, fur on the body, and learn it in one step.”
— Vilayanur RamachandranVS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
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“The imitation of complex skills is what we call culture and is the basis of civilization.”
— Vilayanur RamachandranVS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
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