Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes


If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.


Citations

Ramachandran, V. S., and Sandra Blakeslee. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. William Morrow, 1998, p. 42.

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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Born: August 10, 1951
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Profession: Scientist

Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran is an Indian-American neuroscientist. Ramachandran is known for his wide-ranging experiments and theories in behavioral neurology, including the invention of the mirror box. He is a Distinguished Professor in UCSD's Department of Psychology, where he is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition.