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Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran is a neuroscientist known primarily for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego.

Ramachandran is the author of several books that have garnered widespread public interest. These include Phantoms in the Brain , "A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness" and The Tell-Tale Brain . In addition to his books Ramachandran has presented keynote addresses and public lectures in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and India. Ramachandran has appeared on a variety television interviews and many of his talks can be found on You Tube. He has been profiled in the New Yorker and the Indian Swarajya Magazine. Ramachandran has been called "The Marco Polo of neuroscience" by Richard Dawkins and "the modern Paul Broca" by Eric Kandel. In 1997, Newsweek named him as a member of the "Century Club" one of the most prominent people to watch in the next century. In 2011, Time listed him as one of "the most influential people in the world" on the "Time 100 list".

✵ 10. August 1951
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Famous V.S. Ramachandran Quotes

“science should be question driven, not methodology driven.”

V.S. Ramachandran book The Tell-Tale Brain

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

“What neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.”

V.S. Ramachandran book The Tell-Tale Brain

Source: The Tell-Tale Brain (2010), p. 247

“Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that 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 the meaning of infinity.”

V.S. Ramachandran

A journey to the center of your mind, TED talks.

“Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.”

V.S. Ramachandran book The Tell-Tale Brain

BBC Reith Lectures, quoted in p. 291
The Tell-Tale Brain (2010)

“Your "conscious life" is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.”

V.S. Ramachandran book The Tell-Tale Brain

Source: The Tell-Tale Brain (2010), p. 249

“Any ape can reach for a banana, but only a human can reach for the stars or even know what that means.”

V.S. Ramachandran

"VS Ramachandran: The Sherlock Holmes Of Neuroscience," (Swarajaya, April 4, 2017) https://swarajyamag.com/magazine/any-ape-can-reach-for-a-banana-but-only-a-human-can-reach-for-the-stars

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