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

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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Born: 1951 (age 73)

Bio: Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran is a neuroscientist known primarily for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics.

Known for:

The Tell-Tale Brain (2011)
The Emerging Mind (2003)
Concrete Admixtures Handbook (1984)

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