Dr. VS Ramachandran- a legend
My heartfelt gratitude to a wonderful friend Major Narayanan for remembering to invite me to this legend’s talk.
I had read his book (Phantoms of the brain)and listened to its audio version too. From then on I have been following him.
Seeing him in person was a dream come true. As usual what comes forth is his humility. His talk was peppered with live case histories and his sense of humour.
My key learnings ( aside from Freudian thoughts)
1. Dr. Ramachandran narrated a lovely anecdote on change. Change is intrinsic to science and progress. Consider one building an edifice. One brick is not fitting in. Most would ignore. Some would change its dimension to make it fit. There would be one progressive thinker who would pull down the edifice to rebuild. Dr. Ramachandran says it is alright to pull down the edifice and bring in a new structure.
2. Most importantly he said even if it is your edifice it is alright if it is broken by someone else. Such an amazing insight into ego, inquiry and progress.
3. To truly ‘learn and research’ one needs to study one’s cases. That we need money, technology is secondary. His own mirror box experiment is a classic example.
4. He is so enthusiastic and energetic about discovering and learning. There is so so so much to learn.
I had read his book (Phantoms of the brain)and listened to its audio version too. From then on I have been following him.
Seeing him in person was a dream come true. As usual what comes forth is his humility. His talk was peppered with live case histories and his sense of humour.
My key learnings ( aside from Freudian thoughts)
1. Dr. Ramachandran narrated a lovely anecdote on change. Change is intrinsic to science and progress. Consider one building an edifice. One brick is not fitting in. Most would ignore. Some would change its dimension to make it fit. There would be one progressive thinker who would pull down the edifice to rebuild. Dr. Ramachandran says it is alright to pull down the edifice and bring in a new structure.
2. Most importantly he said even if it is your edifice it is alright if it is broken by someone else. Such an amazing insight into ego, inquiry and progress.
3. To truly ‘learn and research’ one needs to study one’s cases. That we need money, technology is secondary. His own mirror box experiment is a classic example.
4. He is so enthusiastic and energetic about discovering and learning. There is so so so much to learn.
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