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Topic: Fascinating account of brain scientists own stroke
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| UGoGirl | Posted – 4/27/2008 4:11:59 PM | show profile This is very interesting and well worth the watch: ***** Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5993344784355496325&q=jill+bolte+taylor&ei=RdAUSPvwJaSQqwPYkdHYBA&hl=en |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 4/27/2008 7:28:10 PM | show profile I showed it to my husband, and he's a rational scientific type (although not absent minded). He has no interest in thinking or talking about consciousness or spirituality, but he found this video interesting because it was a scientist talking about an incredible experience, and she talks about the whole thing largely in her science language. I've tried to talk to my husband about how we aren't our thoughts, we are much more than that. And he just doesn't go for that. But this scientists experience showed that even though her thinking self was turned off (and on and off and on), she was not turned off. To me, it seems like she had a mystical experience, a recognition that we are all connected (as she says) although she doesn't frame it as a mystical experience but rather a shutting off of the left hemisphere of the brain. Still, from one scientist to another perhaps it can make a person at least open to the idea that there is a lot more to life than we can perceive on a day to day basis. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 4/27/2008 10:13:51 PM | show profile I think that would be very comforting to think that your loved ones who don't seem to be all there are actually in a place that is even better. I hope that's true with your mom. Here's an interview she did where in it she talks a little bit about being with people who are brain damaged (not overstimulating them, etc.). http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2008/04/11/147-nirvana-and-the-brain/ |
