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Dr. Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran, physician-trained neuroscientist. Born in Tamil Nadu in 1951, his father wanted him to be a doctor, so he completed medical school. He then become a researcher in human visual processing, then phantom limbs, & more https://t.co/vpZSr9IQW2 https://t.co/XWoiPZdPzm
I first encountered VS Ramachandran when clicking around on TED years ago. He has this persistent curiosity about him, and a troubleshooter's mindset to understanding things. I'm rewatching it now and I find myself feeling eager and excited to know things https://t.co/pJl7puKxWr
"The brain never ceases to amaze me. It can fall in love, contemplate the universe, the meaning of life, religion, God, arithmetic, even how you see and recognise thousands of faces. How do 100 billion little wisps of jelly do all that?" https://t.co/BnSGtRd2r2
> In 1972, he sent a paper to the most-respected science journal, Nature, and to his amazement they published it immediately. "That's important in science," he says. "You get an early reinforcement and then you become cocky and bold." https://t.co/Ag3mbXGgQ4
He went to Cambridge to do his PhD, and he expected that it would be "crawling with Michael Faradays, Thomas Huxleys and Charles Darwins". Turns out there were fewer than he'd hoped, but there were a handful nevertheless https://t.co/I3NImFu79M
"What's the simplest experiment that I can do and be sure of the answer?" https://t.co/a8FDLGzJUE
"...only recently have we begun to realise that not only is the brain part of the body but the body is also part of the brain. Ramachandran has been at the forefront of reimagining this interdependence with his ground-breaking work on phantom limbs." https://t.co/OIrcOZsT3S
TIL Ramachandran has a dinosaur named after him 😂 what a cool flex https://t.co/K4Tq1bHBmL https://t.co/J3LTKCy6VR
