A passionate and poetic talk by Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor about the nature of our brain and what it entails. She describes her very own perception of a stroke she had. Quite extraordinary. Here's an old post about split brain for some more background.
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Thanks to Natasha Dantzig for drawing my attention to this talk from last month's TED Conference in Monterey, California:
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