Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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Remarkably, the human brain, trapped in darkness of the skull, tries to make sense of the world solely from the information sent to it by five tiny and tenuous threads, our senses.V.S. Ramachandran
The essential feature of body image is integration or synthesis, putting parts together, essentially a cognitive function.V.S. Ramachandran
Why is motherhood so glorified by evolution? Perhaps it's the assurance that one's precious genes won't just get passed on but will also be well cared for.V.S. Ramachandran
If the brain is a vast network of immensely complicated elements which produces continuous changes in response to the environment, what chance is there that its function can ever be understood?V.S. Ramachandran
What all of the syndromes in this book have in common is that for reasons we do not yet fully understand, they are not amenable to direct voluntary control. They are, in other words, 'automatic'.V.S. Ramachandran
The fact that the self can contemplate not only the prospect of its own annihilation but also the futility of trying to avoid it, is surely the pinnacle of evolutionary achievement.V.S. Ramachandran
Phantom limbs are stories that the brain tells itself about the body. They are the embodiment of hope, the physical expression of human resilience and flexibility.V.S. Ramachandran
Most people, including many scientists, believe that experiences, being incorporeal, cannot possibly affect the physical tissue of the brain. This, however, is incorrect.V.S. Ramachandran
Your personality, memories and intellect, your joy, your sorrow, your sense of identity, your will to survive, your very 'soull'—everything that you hold dear as a living, thinking person—is ultimately just the collective behavior of these billions of neurons.V.S. Ramachandran
Sometimes the brain takes things literally: we not only feel for other people but we also feel with them. Because we are wired together into each others’ brains, empathy is not an inference but a direct emotional experience.V.S. Ramachandran