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- EIEAviv2008, on 09/18/2009, -0/+19TED is ***** amazing
- Ajjah, on 09/18/2009, -0/+14I'd much rather go out with Charles Bonnet syndrome than Alzheimer's.
- bkraj, on 09/17/2009, -1/+14Oliver Sacks wrote an amazing book, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." If you have any interest in neurological deficits(aphasias, agnosias) definitely give it a read.
It's very interesting. - 64705, on 09/18/2009, -0/+10Check out Dr. Sacks' Wikipedia picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sacks
He must be hallucinating squids taking over the world! - WriterSD, on 09/17/2009, -1/+9Oliver Sacks is one of my favorite people. He always discusses the most fascinating topics.
- AlexWiggy, on 09/18/2009, -0/+6Like a dweam.
- Jooze, on 09/18/2009, -0/+6I wish facebook, myspace, twitter, and even DIGG was replaced by sites like TED. This ***** is golden. It's a way to advance our minds, and it could be a way to open the entire worlds' minds.
(everything except for porn and TED should be banned from the 'net...) - Mujokan, on 09/18/2009, -0/+5Almost all popular writing on neuroscience uses case studies of people with neurological problems to illustrate how the brain works. After all, it's one of the oldest and most widely-used research tools.
- chemam, on 09/18/2009, -0/+4awww poor you, no slideshows or pictures...
- LucasVB, on 09/18/2009, -0/+4Not just that one. All of his books are incredibly entertaining and insightful. Sacks has a great way to analyze things scientifically without losing a sense of humanity. I recommend them all.
- nietzscheanx, on 09/20/2009, -0/+3I'm going to be the one who says it I guess, hallucinogens such as LSD, psilocybin and DMT(the ones I'm familiar with) are all capable of producing very very similar responses in me and other peope I've done those drugs with. However they are not always meaningless because a lot more can be involved with them in your train of thought. In fact I'm sure at times they are more vivid, more exciting and more meaningful to interpretation.
If you think they are in some way merely destructive to the body than think again, look them up, they have very few adverse effects(I'm taking for granted that people would use them with a sense of moderation I suppose) and sould be studied on this sort of level. - cjsmith87, on 09/18/2009, -0/+3Or both. I see faces but I don't know if I SHOULD recognize them.
- jj101, on 09/18/2009, -0/+3It really is - although that was up there with the most boring talk I've seen on the site. You could sum up in 3 mins what he took 20 to say. Some speeches on there are so incredibley informative/inspiring that I guess I've been spoilt.
- Slain3, on 09/18/2009, -0/+1Scwew you!
- OaklandNative, on 09/19/2009, -0/+1I would be too if I had a hand growing out of my shoulder!!
- emezeske, on 09/20/2009, -0/+1Hmm, you must be experiencing some sort of auditory hallucinations yourself if you were unable to detect the extremely high level of interest he had in the subject. Did you watch the last few minutes, where he had to admit that he has experienced visual hallucinations himself, and has done so in an FMRI machine?
- nurbsenvi, on 09/18/2009, -0/+1fut you I am spesurl!
- Mujokan, on 09/18/2009, -0/+1One I found interesting was "Seeing Voices".
- nietzscheanx, on 09/20/2009, -0/+1Ha because porn opens our minds in fascinating ways...
- nietzscheanx, on 09/20/2009, -0/+1Indeed it would have been much more effective in that sense if it were writen in say a few paragraphs and recited, albeit not at all a boring topic.
- Someb0dy, on 09/19/2009, -0/+1Now that was fascinating.
Thanks for sharing. - the2989, on 09/19/2009, -1/+2She'd need to be pretty loose to be a hat.
- Grazzit, on 09/18/2009, -4/+1actually found him very reminiscent of some of my most horrible teachers from highschool, he doesn't even really seem interested in what he's talking about if you just listen.
but if you choose to think i watch TED presentations for the pretty pictures well, enjoy - Angostura, on 09/18/2009, -5/+1Yes, but when I read this many years ago now, I was struck by the extent to which any actual discussion of neuroscience was buried under the mass of "ooh look at this strange man' case studies. Too me it felt a lot more like a freak show than anything else... and it made Sacks a lot of money.
- Grazzit, on 09/18/2009, -9/+3one of the most boring TED presentations I've seen in awhile
- Angostura, on 09/18/2009, -16/+2Ah yes, Oliver Sacks aka "The man who mistook his patients for a publishing opportunity".
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