Barry Smith - When Brains Go Bad
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Barry C. Smith is a professor of philosophy and Director of the Institute of Philosophy at University of London.
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This is amazing. After my stroke, I could write normally, but I couldn’t read. The letters were perfectly clear, but I couldn’t form the word. I had no problems with either speaking or understanding what I heard. Fortunately, most of my ability to read came back.
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The more I discover about the mechanisms of the brain the more frightening it seems in its apparent bottomless complexity and fragility... 👀
A question about patients with alien hand syndrome who experience pain but do not associate themselves with the pain. The question is whether their proprioception system is is working correctly ? For example can they accurately localize the source of the pain caused by the pin to the point on their skin where they are pricked ?
Fascinating...
Damage to certain areas of the brain can result in a condition known as akinetic mutism, an extreme form of apathy where voluntary action becomes impossible, even though it’s not a motor deficit. They simply lack the “will”.
Sad and a little scary!
We have limited and cryptic access to external reality. When channels are compromised, so is that access. That doesn’t tell us anything extra about the nature of consciousness. I don’t think it takes us Closer to Truth.
1:20 a blindfolded patient with a disruptive higher brain functionality can still react to outside stimuli the same as a leaf does to a rain drop...
Agency is surely an illusion
I’m just wondering if in the example given, the person with the alien arm would still feel the pain if she doesn’t see someone actually poking her alien arm with a needle? If so, it’s probably more than a case of a spatial misplacement of ownership, and likely has some connection with the plasticity tendencies of the brain having gone awry.
I have a similar question noted above. I wonder if we will get an answer ?
He's wrong about alien hand syndrome. He means hemispheric neglect
A friend of mine who's right side of the brain was damaged, paralyzing the left side of his body, said after waking from the coma that "there is a dead man next to me".
My name is Billy Blim!
Brain is absolutely not unified, there is no one and only self.
It is unified by the fact that it exists within the same body.
@@theotormon Everything exist within the same universe, it doesn't mean everything is unified.
what do you mean by there is only self?
Aren't dreams a type of "thought being inserted into my head"? These are all human conceptions of things that are beyond human comprehension. It sounds like what we call a "self", is more than just one consciousness, and we already know that it is more than just one type of consciousness (we know about the unconscious, for example).
The camera work is REALLY distracting me from the conversation, it's messing with my "brain". Is this some new cinematic approach with the subtle moving and shifting and constant motion of the camera? Go back to the old recording format, please.
I agree with you. I felt the same.
I disagree. Kudos to the camera person!
Cinemagraphic 😢😮😅😊❤🎉😂
The cameraman does excellent work 👍👍
If human's body dosent have behaviour
Many partes of brains are funcions complexety. So definies brains as bad funcions It is keep out neurosience seriously. Brains definies as bad it is inconsistency with reality funcions on the brains.
And yet, people are not convinced that consciousness is what the brain does.
A lack of environmental feedback do to being insulted with in the private space.. It is contact with the varying intensities of the 4 elements which stimulate our immune systems in shaping our biology
#87 ❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊 I swear to God stick a needle in my eye.😮
"When Brains Go Bad" When your brain goes bad, your soul is still good... Thousands who experienced deaths when their brains went bad, and then came back to life, have realized that their true being is not the physical body nor brain but souls after having NDE's... ..but you do not need to experience NDE to realize that your true being is NOT your physical body... you just need to ackowledge and understand that your FREE AWARENESS is not physical but un-natural or supernatural spiritual being...
@evaadam3635 Yes, I agree, and i am surprised why he doesn't have an episode about this.
After my stroke something happened where I touched eternity. I was in my body but I was also somewhere else. There are no words for it, really. The most perfect love. I was safe. Since then, I have no fear of death. Dying, sure, because that can be painful and unpleasant. But what lies beyond is beyond what our brains can comprehend, perfect eternity. (And now I’m rambling on. Sorry about that.)
Shutup you non sense😅
We are simply sensory organs for a larger self. There is only one living organism here.
I think most of us understand that crazy people say and believe crazy things. This guy seems to be taking their insane babbling way too seriously.
Is that what you got out of this video?
@@lefthookouchmcarm4520 A schizophrenic once told me that they picked up a random piece of paper blowing down the street and it turned out to be a message for them from the CIA. Should I infer from this something important about the way government agencies communicate with individuals?
I suppose one could categorize the phenomena described in this video as people having forms of mental illness, or, as you communicated so eloquently, "crazy people". If said "craziness" is not due to malfunctioning neurological processes, to what do you ascribe it?
@@caricue What do you think it's like to be twins? This video has me thinking of this. Crazy people are crazy for sure, but why? I think figuring this out is important, especially how it correlates to physical brain states. This is just a weird way of saying how the brain might exist as a "snapshot" at any specific moment.
@@mikel5582 The problem is that brain researchers say that since a broken brain cannot integrate all the various distributed brain inputs, this indicates that there isn't an integrated self, but only the illusion of unity. In this sense, extrapolating from broken brains is giving a false impression, imho.
How about: 'When minds go bad'. There's proselyting persons like rizwan rafeek here who thinks he knows Allah and is doing the work of Allah in mocking Christ, intentionally lying about and manipulating the KJV bible and not willing to learn that it's a literary work of atrotheology. Too, he mocks Hinduism and the Avatars. Mocking Hinduism crosses that line. And he thinks he knows Allah. If you don't convert to islam then you are forever lost. "The quran is the true word of God" he propagates. Although he reveals no Wisdom, insight, or altruistic qualities, he reifies himself from his condition. And then on the other side: you have the hardcore atheists in simon, who has no desire to acknowledge Wisdom, or even consider the books compiled by giants that were 100x more intelligent then he is. Simon put words in the mouths of Tesla, Poincare, Maxwell, Steinmetz, Heaviside, claiming that "they would have jumped on boad the quantum band wagon had they lived a little longer" - paraphrase. But he precludes the fact of Tesla giving polemics against Einstein. The guy argues from sophist stand points and has a hatred towards the Divine - it can be detected. Do atheists feel inferior when acknowleding God is omniescient, omnipotent, omnipresent? He's likely quite smart in his area of expertise in episteme. What's happening here - what are these extemeties? Has man lost his way, has he become drunk on materialism and extolls himself to high?
Finally a video where we can leverage your first-hand experience.
@@mikel5582your gayness has no effect on me. I don't make jokes over the internet. I see you think you're cute tho. I'm not into that. This isn't entertainment for me, unlike for you.
@@S3RAVA3LM All you do is make jokes over the internet. You just aren't wise enough to know how big of a joke what you say is.