Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
posted by XX | May 9, 2009
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IcerocketAnother Evolver recommended this TED talk. I found it worth the watch.
One morning, a blood vessel in 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 ...
Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the "Singin' Scientist."
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Nice
— May 09, 2009
This video is amongst the most profound I have ever seen. It was on RS a good while back, and has helped shaped my understanding since. Very nice bringing it here. It should be spread around the world, and maybe even taught in classrooms, in my opinion. ^_^
Much love.
"You must *be* the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
This is amazing! Brought a
— May 10, 2009
This is amazing! Brought a tear to eye witnessing the utter sincerity of Dr. Taylor's experience, an experience that describes the nature of all human minds. I was actually looking for this book the other day, and I didn't know about this video. Thanks so much for sharing this.
A Great Interface with Rigid Science
— May 10, 2009
I do really believe that she will open the human eyes of many scientists to the possibility of non-replicable science as some of the more astute among them pursue related research and realize that Science is its own sort of rigid, ritualistic religion, as mired in tradition as most of our most prevalent religions. And that has been happening for hundreds of years - just think about that upstart who said the world is round, an idea that was soundly rejected by the greatest scientific minds of his time. I think it is time for the Scientific Method to lose its hold on us, don't you?
But isn't it the quantum physicists that planted the seed of that thought in pure science? I think of Dr Taylor as merely the humanly visible and understandable culmination of the shifting thought of humanity. And I love her for it.
Rosemary
