I wish I had time to write more about this fascinating, provocative set of lectures given on BBC by Vilayanur S Ramachandran. Rather than wait until I can get around to it, I’m just posting the link. It’s a lot of reading (or you may choose to listen), but worth it.
Briefly, though, this has been nearly life-changing for me. It’s colored the way I look at almost everything. While I don’t find all of his evolutionary arguments completely persuasive, even his conjectures are illuminating. One thing seems certain: the near future holds many deep and significant discoveries about the brain.
In short, we’re all synesthetes on this bus.
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