V.S. Ramachandran - Does Brain Make Mind? 

Very interesting stuff. BTW, this guy is speaking exactly 25% faster than the average person, just set playback speed to 75%

He speech was very clear in his Ted talk about 15 years ago. If his speech is not clear to some, it could just be his age. His books had a great impact on my life. Thank you Sir🙏🙏

His book Phantoms in the Brain had such a big influence on me in my teens.

This man is an invaluable treasure.

This video reminds of the work that was done with burn patients playing video games while they undergo skin grafts to subside pain during that process. The human body is truly amazing!

The man is very much worth listening to, it helps to play at 0.75 speed and turn the subtitles on.

Wow yea the mind really can alter your reality to the point of causing pain when there is nothing physically wrong. I've even experienced this myself with anxiety.

I’m missing at least 20% of what this dude is saying, and so I can’t understand anything. Subtitles, please.

He explained complex process in simple language.. Genius.. 👌👍

Fascinating insights!

This man has some incredible stories to tell I would like to see more of him. His English accent might be hard to understand at first but one should put the time in to understand it After all his discoveries will be beneficial to everyone. He has much to offer. Please include him in further videos

Don’t check playback speed, it’s not at 125% - this is how Ramachandran works! lol this guy is always 1/4 higher frequency on everything lol had a 4h course and he delivered 5h of full new and fresh knowledge. It takes time to adapt and when you do, everyone else will seem a little bit laggy.

I'm relieved I'm not the only one who had difficulty interpreting Ramachandrans words, very thorough discussion though.

listen at .75 playback speed, boys!

wow usually i am so not interested in neuroscience...but this guy is fascinating...had to slow it down to 0.75x though..

Fascinating!!!

An absolutely mind expanding view of reality! Science expands by investigation of anomalies at the edge of knowledge!

Total genius. Next level genius. Just interview this guy once a week. Find more guys like this guy. Also Mark Soms has some good ideas. The other day I was going to mention the idea others have to call whatever it is they are trying to define in the abstract as “consciousness” was that it could be more in the primitive part of the brain when cardiac arrest happens and patients remember things even when they flat line and supposedly their is evidence that they no longer have brain activity. Not sure how a doctor is EXACLTY taking measurements of brain activity during these emergency procedures so it may be what they learned in medical school and the doctor themselves are just assuming based on bad information from training and “science” not able to explain things like SIDS while claiming the high road like consciousness in other organisms so we can call it more basic which is arrogant because is a skunks consciousness worth less than a small human baby or an old man or a young woman or a brilliant mans? The skunk is surely conscious when it sprays your dog who tries to attack it outside your home when you let the dog out at night in your underwear half asleep and then spend the rest of the night scrubbing that dog with tomato juice right? Sounds like maybe the humans awareness and connection to the dogs level of communication of why it was whimpering and barking in the first place wasn’t to go to the bathroom but was to investigate the noises it heard outside the home which was and is most likely an animal and it seems it is using its responses to this awareness to get closer to the noise. So who’s fault is that? The skunks consciousness? The dogs? Or the so smart superior consciousness of the super intelligent academic professor Nobel prize winning fat, overweight, maybe in shape maybe not in shape but has a dog that he or she has no idea how to read its responses to its own bowel or threats. Sorry not sorry. Just pick a school of thought like I don’t know. Was their a brain first and then a body or a body first and then a brain? Regardless, duh, it is connected AND also can be disconnected or NOT used and NOT perfect for all sorts of reasons. For example, try to wiggle your toes. Then look at your feet and just move one of your toes. You can actually train yourself. I know it is SO BORING!!! Just put your feet in shoes and let your body move your mind to your car and to your job so you can get a paycheck to go on vacation and drink drinks with little umbrellas and “feel” that feel that is sold to you by advertisers and culture that you “need” this feeling because others are doing it too! So, instead stay home, save the money and spend 8 hours trying to train your brain to “feel” your toes maybe for the first time in your life that you can actually recall. You might even remember wiggling your toes for the first time when you were young. How about this question? Who can remember the first memory they ever had? Or when does the first memory happen? Is it a memory only if it can be remembered? What happens when a smell triggers a repressed memory? Or a picture? Or a sound? Or a baseball in a hand that hasn’t held a baseball in decades? That is in fact one of the major major major questions surrounding the differences between “animals” that aren’t humans. Not just the ability of the storage of memory but the ability to recall, not remember, forget, repress and reremember memories. Why do we need pictures? Or movies? What is our fascination with remembering? Humans also have the ability to record memories. Cave paintings are a fascinating history of humans. Just don’t ask Sam Harris about those “stupid” humans that came before us because they didn’t use his superior logic to navigate the ice ages. Ask the imagination and creativity that came out of the memories. Where “exactly” are all these memories stored? AND MORE IMPORTANTLY!!! HOW is that information being stored? In what form? Chemical structures? Microtubules in quantum structures?

You can just tell that his guy is phenomenally intelligent.

im actually more amazed that youtube auto generated captions are perfectly on point while i cannot even understand him.

Seems vagueness in way in which synopsis are able hold information is what the key issue which is something that we have to understand even more profoundly

I like this series very much. So many highly educated and thoughtful people.... few of whom agree with each other. I wonder if these are the same people who ridicule the various interpretations of the Bible.

Had a privilege of listening him live in bombay couple of years back at opera House.. He is legend..

"Phantoms in the Brain"--his wonderful book---i wonder....my hs left football QB had a severe stroke at 70 and slept through it and woke up completely paralyzed on his left dominant side---i told them to use a mirror and put a football in his right hand which he would see as his left hand and maybe brain connections would renew or re route. ??? if viable, is 2 yrs too late?

absolutely amazing!!! 😲🤓👍

That is why my father always suggested Visualization where everything fails. He is not a neuro-scientist but a Yoga teacher. Now, I know why mental visualization can help in distressing situations.

Is just me or title doesn’t match what the content is about?

Yes

Interesting interview but thank goodness Closed Captioning is available.

Amazing mind..

This videos did NOT answer the question in the title. Disappointing.

Interesting facts presented here.

I wish I could have understood him. I am sure he is making valid points.

Revolutionary video ❤❤❤❤❤

🙏

Ramachandran seems much farther along in a scientific explanation than others I've seen.

The brain sending back messages "down the hierarchy" to reduce the complexity of the search and the processing, is really clever :)

Please add manually edited subtitles to this video, fascinating to listen, but a little difficult to pick the words.

He is probably the only person who speaks at the same pace at which I usually play each and every podcast/interview. Just compare the hosts speech... Something slows down when host speaks. Am I the only idiot who is weird because I get immensely irked by slow speech? 😩 Don't Pounce at me... I accept I need help😝

I know this work from years ago but I can't see how anyone who is hearing about this for the 1st time could understand this as presented: he speaks very quickly and has a heavy accent, there are no diagrams or other supporting video to illustrate what he's describing, and the moderator doesn't even try to slow him down or to clarify points. It desperately needs subtitles and other graphic aides to get it across. And VSR isn't challenged enough: e.g., how do reciprocal connections between brain areas mediate visual processing? He mentions them but never explains how they do it. Yet the work is impressive and very important so it's a shame to have it presented this way. However, as impressive as it is it doesn't address the issue of brain making mind. The titles of most of these neuroscience videos are way too ambitious. This work shows how perceptions can alter experience, but says almost nothing about how the brain produces either perceptions or experience.

Spirit and brain equals mind Simple.

Thank you. I reduced the speed of clip in order to understand Mr. Ramachandra explaination, but then the indian underlaying accent didn't let me (french speaking) even understand %50 of the lecture!!!!

The brain facilitates mind as the soil facilitates plants.

Need subtitles

5:00

They should have provided subtitles

I have no doubt this fellow is tops in his field, but, I'm having a difficult time understanding the english exiting his mouth at times, it just makes it somewhat of a chore to listen to him, lets face it, the subject matter itself requires a bit of thought above the daily average video watching, so, adding to that with blubba, dubba, dooba bubablippabooba doesn't help........yes, I know, I'm working on it.

Some human societies (Aboriginal Australian) have always believed life/universe is interconnected both in regard to space and time.

Brain is just a seat for mind

Very interesting especially the giant pee pee part the brain is an amazing thing no matter how long it takes we should try to understand it function by function

Is borderline ridiculous , every psychologist, neuroscientist, philosopher have his own idea. There are not 2 that are the same.

Robert: So how does the brain create the mind? V.S. Ramachandran: The thing goes *Brraaaa* *Pow Pow* *Skibiddy* *Pa* *Pa* *Boopoo* *Prrrrr* *BOOM* *!!*

Even the interveiwer does not understand anything i guess

NTS: great/100/rtfm/use

Why does Ramachandran never blink his eyes🤔

Ask him if mind and consciousness are one and the same?

"when I did my PhD" again? Do a clip on self-awareness.

Does feet make walking?

For me is impossible to follow the speech of Ramachandran, i can't understand a word

From 7 minutes and 55 seconds too 805 seconds in this video

Speed talking champion

So does brain makes the mind?

fun of being a neurologist: 1) see something bizzarre 2) reject freudian theory 3) solve :p

Pure Consciousness.

Frankly, he did not say, but by implication is yes?

The brain is only the smallest part of the mind. Mind is bigger than what you thought as central processing unit, a bit like how it gave birth to present business machines, so called stupidly , as 'computers'.

IunderstoodeverythingV.S.Ramachandransaid,Ican'tunderstandwhattheproblemis?

No

This man is incredibly intelligent but I wish he would slow down. His accent already makes it difficulty understand much of what he says.

watch this at .75 speed trust me

Never heard of this guy. I thought he was going to start talking like Cheech from Cheech & Chong. Turns out he's Indian.

oO ...

Np, the five senses create mind

Can't understand this dude talks so fast, it's like the videos at double speed

At first I thought he was mumble rapping.

Sub titles

Wrong. The mind utilizes the brain. The mind is the music and the brain is the speaker.

Ok now let's judge this man based on his speech, who has given more than 3 decades of his life into something of what he is talking about. SMH

Speaks fast and rambles a lot... perfect way to avoid explaining the things he's saying. The momento you think about one of his phrases... he's on another thing already.

I cannot understand him... : (

Always the same old story… After not even one hour, there are already so many great self proclaimed specialists explaining why he is wrong, what mind is etc. Please make a favor to yourselves, learn humility and if you think there’s a single mistake in what he’s mentioned do some research and share (serious) links !

THE SPERM CELL IS THE SOUL IN THE PUREST CLOTHING CLOSER TO THE SPIRITUAL THAN TO THE PHYSICAL. Our journey into this world no doubt started as a sperm cell and ovum cell (egg cell). The sperm cell entered the ovum cell (egg cell) and embedded itself into the ovum cell, as what is internal into what is external. In no time, the duplet cell replicates its chromosome and starts dividing into cell divisions (mitosis) and finally project a brain, then a neck`, then a torso, then hands and legs to produce the human form. For that reason, the principal cause, the sperm cell (development into a spirit) is not perceived in the instrumental cause (the ovum cell development to become the physical body) otherwise than as one with it. Since the human form belongs to the sperm cell, it follows that the sperm cell is also in the human form and is a mirror image of our physical form. This is what wills, sees within us as if we are watching a video in our heads, and thinks in words as if we are listening to a telephone conversation within us. For that reason, the body by itself can do nothing, but is always moved in complete obedience to the bidding of the will, seeing within us, and thinking in words, even to the extent that whatever a person thinks in words he speaks with his tongue and lips, and whatever he wills he does with his body and limbs. Thus, the will and understanding (made up of the seeing within us and thinking in words) belonging to our spirits are what act, while our physical bodies by themselves do nothing. Moreover, when we go to sleep, we see ourselves in our dreams, but think we are still in our physical bodies only to realize on awakening that we have dreamt. The Bible calls our mirror image the inner man (Eph 3:16), the inward man (7:22), the hidden man (1Pet 3:4), and also a spirit (Dan 2:3), and also distinguishes between the two, calling them the inward man and the outer man (2Cor 4:16). Because the inner man is our spirit is the reason why God Speaks to his prophets in dreams (Numbers 12:6). It should be here stated that the sperm cell covering is woven from the purest natural substances bordering the spiritual and the natural, while the soul’s substances is purely spiritual. The soul is called a spirit because we stamp on it our way of willing, our way of seeing things within us, and our way of thinking in words. Thus, soul and spirit can used interchangeably. From all this, it is clear that the mind belongs to the spirit and the brain belongs to the physical body. This is why we can get injured in the spinal cord and in a part of the brain, but still, we will, something, see within us as if watching a video, and think in words as if listening to a telephone conversation. We can see that these three, namely, to will will, see within us, and think in words are our consciousness which form the mind. Thus, the mind generates the brain, and not the other way round The seer Emmanuel Swedenborg [1688-1772] wrote: "The physical body is added to and apparently almost joined to the spirit, in order that the spirit of man may be able to live and perform activities in the natural world, all things of which are material and in themselves devoid of life. And as it is the spiritual only which lives, and not the material, it can be seen that whatever lives in man is his spirit, and that the body merely serves it, just as what is instrumental serves a moving living force. An instrument is said indeed to act, to move, or to strike; but to believe that these are acts of the instrument, and not of him who acts, moves, or strikes by means of the instrument, is a fallacy."

Indian have been practicing the Art of medicine and healing like homeopathy , ayurvedic and yoga for more than 5000 years and the west has always rejected this sort of practice as psuedo science but now the west has slowly come around and started to realise this knowledge possessed by Ancient indians and its relevance in healing the human body and mind.

No one is more hated than she who speaks the truth- Plato.

I can understand the guy but he’s speed talking with words blurring into each other with a closed mouth mumble - my advice to him is to slow down 30% or he’ll lose 50% of his audience who won’t be able to follow what he’s saying, which would be a little tragic.

Never mind Robert, by rising and setting, the sun decreases the life span of even the most complacent fool.

The brain cannot do anything to generate not only the mind, but also the intelligence and the ego.

I have watched most of Ramachandran's lectures online but this interview was really hard to follow. Even in 0.75 speed his articulation and heavy accent is incomprenhensible.

Ive been listening to V S ...but these days his speech seems slurred..and something nerologically detorriating....

Didn't understand anything because of the way he is speaking.

If he could only talk slower.

This this guy work in a call centre?

Lots of curry makes you hurry! (Now, get your earphones and listen at 75% speed!)

Drunk rambling. However not knows accurate, proof his works. He give us skewed picture brains funcions.

Such confused so-called scientists! This show is a disservice.

5:00 AMONGUS

No. Let's move on from that backdated idea.

This is bullshit! This guy is always asking questions that can never be answered! What we have to learn to do in life is ask the right questions??!

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No, the brain does not make the mind.