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Quotes from The Tell-Tale Brain — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

born 1951 India

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Your "conscious life" is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

The Tell-Tale Brain (2010)

What neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

The Tell-Tale Brain (2010)

Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.

The Tell-Tale Brain (2010)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.