![]() ![]() Today, Rama releases his highly anticipated new book: The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human - an ambitious exploration of everything from the origins of language to our relationship with art to the very mental foundation of civilization.Īs heady as our progress has been, we need to stay completely honest with ourselves and acknowledge that we have only discovered a tiny fraction of what there is to know about the human brain. The fact that he is better-known as Rama - you know, like Prince or Madonna or Che - is a fitting reflection of his cultural cachet. Ramachandran is one of the most influential neuroscientists of our time, whose work has not only made seminal contributions to the understanding of autism, phantom limbs and synesthesia, among other fascinating phenomena, but has also helped introduce neuroscience to popular culture. Now, a compelling new answer may be before us. The question of what it means to be human is something we’ve explored before, and something humanity has grappled with for eons. ![]()
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