Synaesthesia in Mystical Traditions

[@coolchickalive]

When my son was a young teen, he told his dad that he sees the days of the week in certain colors and a friend told us about synesthesia. We never heard of that before. I think my son always saw things that way, but didn’t think it wasn’t normal so never mentioned it. He’s 26 and is an artist now and his painting teacher was impressed with his immediate ability to understand and create what he was teaching.

[@RodFleming-World]

Yet again Ramachandran gives such exquisite explanations for things that psychology simply cannot explain. Very good, and what a talented lecturer...You know it is drummed into people who study education that even a PhD student - the best of the best - has a natural attention span of around 15 minutes, and it is up to the lecturer to keep refreshing that, to keep them on board. Watch the pacing and the rhythm Ramachandran uses, how he varies his delivery and moves from topic to topic, each, note, more tantalising than the previous. He throws in jokes and audience participation at very precisely-timed moments, uses gentle self-mockery, he moves around and animates the space he occupies, and employs a whole range of techniques just to keep the audience with him. All educators should study his style. Oh, and what he says is very profound.

[@canisterbottournament]

well one mistake he had going that i noticed often is that he would bore the audience with what is write or wrong like he did with roman and "indian" numerals

[@elijaguy]

Ramachandran, that's my man! Just bought the Kindle edition of his Tell Tale Brain, less then 12$ and the most urgent things I need to learn about me and others. (And yes, excited to listen to more of his fascinating lectures, as many as there are!).

[@1ron0xide]

How was the book??

[@mostafafawaz7805]

the title doesn't match the content : Synaesthesia in Mystical Traditions the lecture is mainly about neurotic explanation of synaesthesia

[@psiclops521]

Very interesting. At 42:00 he talks about spatial representations in the brain. One of the reasons, in UX, there is interest in radial menus is that users learn to use radial menus faster than they learn to use sequential menus. Experienced users are equally as fast at the menus, but initial learning curve is shortened for radial menus. The research I saw shows that spatial representations are based on a reference point: we understand location relative to a landmark. The theory is that we learn radial menus faster because of our innate understanding of space, but I wonder if sequence, which he has talked about already in his discussion of synaesthesia, is a higher function and spatial comprehension is limbic and therefore we are quicker to learn spaces rather than sequences.

[@canisterbottournament]

youre right, they are unable to see sequences, and yk what else is crazy? there are certain books that are like "magic"to them

[@ym2413a]

Wow! This guy is amazing.

[@KyleHarrington1986]

Ah Ramachandran, such a brilliant and charismatic man!

[@sravanimatte3397]

Oh my god it's 13 years old video ,I'm living all my years of life without knowing this we are really living in a buble.

[@Scott-ir5eg]

Everyone will live their lives without know 1/10000… of anything. And we can still live our lives to the fullest.

[@Trinivalts]

Good lecture!

[@xavierpaquin]

I like this Buba & Keekee example of everyday synaesthesia, but I'm not sure I agree with his claim that the brain associates the sound of those words with the shapes. When I hear Buba and Keekee, I also associate the sounds with the letters as they are written. Buba is round like a B and Keekee is pointy like a K. So it might be an abstraction from one visual object to another. Any thoughts?

[@angelavolkov1126]

"K" is also a sharp looking letter probably for that reason? Even though a letter association boooooba and kiki sound very different and correspond to this sense of smoothness vs sharpness.

[@SosiBibuSuka]

Indian BORAT?... good lecture

[@ownworldman]

@xavierpaquin Well, pherharps graphic representation (letters) is also connected to the sound. Also, you would probably get the same results of Arabians or Koreans, who use different writing.

[@BusinessButterfly]

subject #456 :) love this Dr!!!

[@joelovesyou]

Most amazing. fantastic lecture!

[@DNAatWork14]

Sun and east - I was thinking that as they separate each day ?!

[@Dan1152511]

constantly walking on eggshells with the religeous stuff, but very very interesting :D

[@omarelmasryable]

Dr ramachandran, Marco polo of the brain

[@Mejoree113]

I dont see the colours for the number thing. But I can see the triangle easily... itsn ot coloured though.

[@eeaammoonn]

The title of this video is truncated from "Synaesthesia in Mystical Traditions, The Arts, and Cognitive Neuroscience" This is one part of a series presented by different speakers, so the fact that this lecture draws none of the connections implied by the title, shouldn't be a disappointment. The mention of Shiva at the end only got me revved up for where this discussion would lead, and suggested new ground ahead. Perhaps it was a lead-in to the next presentation.

[@eeaammoonn]

...which may explain Ramachandran’s apologies for reductionism.

[@ataraxia4526]

Engineers are not creative?? The most ridiculous assumption I’ve ever heard...

[@1ron0xide]

My man

[@br1anlars0n]

His voice is a reddish orange with very round inflated shapes.

[@Johannes739]

ich hab mir das jetz schon 2 mal angeguck xD

[@sharinbarber]

Me Likey