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Ariens Kappers Medal from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences ; The Padma Bhushan from the President of India; BBC Reith Lectures , 2003; elected to a visiting fellowship at All Souls College , Oxford ; co-winner of the 2005 Henry Dale Prize awarded by the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran ( Tamil : விளையனூர் இராமச்சந்திரன் , born 1951) is a neuroscientist known for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics .
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We need to talk about how the digital world might be changing our brains, says the neuroscientist and former director of the UK's Royal Institution You think that digital technology is having an impact on our brains. How do you respond to those who say there's no evidence for this?
Susan Greenfield: Living online is changing our brains - tech - 03 August 2011 - New Scientist
Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain: Amazon.co.uk: David Eagleman: Books
Readers may discover much to appreciate - not least the lives they are living now. . . quirky, occasionally unsettling . . . never short of new new ideas, all of them rolled out with style. --Nicholas Tucker, Independent Stunningly original... You can get through it in an hour, but you'd be mad to hurry, and you will certainly want to return to it many times...Sum has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius. It seems exquisitely adapted to fill the contemporary longing for a kind of secular holy book. --Geoff Dyer, The Observer
Taken at face value, as a kind of fantasy thought-experiment succintly exploring the sheer strangeness of the concept of death itself, the book is by turns witty, imaginative, playful, and occasionally poetic. Each tale works independently in terms of its individual logic, and overall there is a real cumulative pleasure taken in the notion of comparing 40 'invented' afterlives. Some of the ideas are extensions of already existing fantasy and science-fiction lore to some extent, and religious ideas also get included - paradoxes and all - but what becomes clear,as it should, is that all of this is about how we actually value our lives, and really has nothing to do with the afterlife at all.
Sum: Tales from the Afterlives: Amazon.co.uk: David Eagleman: Books
"How did a suicidal robot end up here?" It had taken over 20 years of painstaking preparation and research to plan his suicide. He had to learn everything there was to know about the science of sentience. read more
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