Sunday, January 17, 2010

Take the Neuron Express for a Brief Tour of Consciousness with Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran

Take the Neuron Express for a brief tour of consciousness

with neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran

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V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego. A former BBC Reith Lecturer, he co-authored Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, with Sandra Blakeslee, and is the author of A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness.

Books by V.S. Ramachandran:

A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers, 2005

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, 1999
Watch this video at the site.

If you are interested, here is another lecture from Ramachandran, at the Beyond Belief conference (2006), with Stuart Hameroff.




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