{"id":1376,"date":"2012-04-20T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T23:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2020-05-19T11:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T18:32:15","slug":"v-s-ramachandran-consciousness-qualia-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"V.S. Ramachandran &#8211; Consciousness, Qualia &#038; Self"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_36987\"  width=\"480\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jTWmTJALe1w?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organized structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just have to look at some numbers. The brain is made up of one hundred billion nerve cells or &#8220;neurons&#8221; which is the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system. Each neuron makes something like a thousand to ten thousand contacts with other neurons and these points of contact are called synapses where exchange of information occurs. And based on this information, someone has calculated that the number of possible permutations and combinations of brain activity, in other words the numbers of brain states, exceeds the number of elementary particles in the known universe.\u201d<br \/>&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vilayanur_S._Ramachandran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vilayanur S. Ramachandran<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organized structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just have to look at some numbers. The brain is made up of one hundred billion nerve cells or &#8220;neurons&#8221; which is the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system. Each neuron &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1376\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">V.S. 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