Sunday, March 30, 2008

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

One morning, a blood vessel in Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness ... Rating: 5-stars / Length 18:44 / Watch the video

5 comments:

Joanna said...

Wow,RAC,that was so very interesting.I want to watch it again and again. Her ability to see from the left hemisphere compared to the right was awesome.Who are we? I guess we ultimately choose one side or the other. I liked her left side in that she experienced what was to her nirvana,being in electrical particles like everything around us.Thanks for that reminder:)

rac said...

I agree, Joanna. I've watched it twice myself and was just as moved the second time around.

Ric Larson said...

Wow, RAC'man! (What is your PhD. in.)? And if you don't have one, you should! You are one intellectual 'son of a gun'! Keep the science stuff coming! Love'n it!

Paul said...

Wow, very heavy stuff. I gotta show this to family and other friends.

Doug said...

Heavy. Kind of reminds me of a teeny weeny purple pill....