Oliver Sacks on Ripe Bananas
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- "I’m very interested in how people adapt to extremes” - Oliver Sacks on July 28, 1996
The renowned neurologist and author sat down for an interview with Henry Tischler that aired on the Cover-to-Cover radio show on WGBH-FM in Boston.
In this episode of Blank on Blank, we're focusing on Sacks' ability to see how man handles afflictions and genetic defects to survive. Enjoy the journey to a hidden island where colorblindness is normal.
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"We used everything." That was strangely impactful.
Truely
there was a really good quote by one mathematician about another mathematician (dont remember the names) : "I had to calculate, he could see"
It really was - humbling in a way. Remembering there’s always another way to perceive something
I miss this man. He wrote about mental illness with a nonpareil pathos and empathetic touch. He worked towards changing the paradigm and prejudice of many of psychiatry's ontology and did it in some of the most interesting books I've read on the subject. I highly recommend pretty much anything by him, especially MUSICOPHILIA.
rss313 If you haven't read "On the Move" that one is great as well. It's more a story of his life rather than his studies but it's a fantastic read!
I haven't! Thanks for that, I'll add it to my already very long list of things to get to sometime this...life.
I've got one of those lists as well.
Yes, if we follow Gerry Rafferty's line of thinking-we can always get it right next time. Too much to get through in one life-time.
I don't understand how this channel isn't more popular.
The interviews are amazing, and the animations are great too!
we love our current audience but always love to hear that new people find us!
Agreed. I wish this was still going on. This channel is brilliant.
I met him once. He was completely charming and utterly fascinating. I wish I knew him better before he died. RIP Dr. Sacks
I miss Oliver. He had a brightness to him that was seen through his eyes when they would shine while he would talk of things of interest to him. You could also see this brightness through his brilliant books: pages upon pages of beautiful, thorough writings that only a man of passions could produce.
*Ripe banana in the pancake mix* are one of the best things with honey and butter.
I think this is my favorite interview yet.
thanks Auto play, I might never of knew I wanted to see this. I know I love Oliver Sachs, but there is such a deep wealth of knowledge and wisdom behind his research that one constantly discovers how profound an impact this man made in his journey on this earth. Rest in peace, good-sir
the wonders of chance! thanks for tuning in.
Wow, I feel like I have quenched a thirst that I have been trying to quench for a long time, in finding this channel.
thank you!
RIP Oliver Sacks.
fantastic video!
This also goes by the fact that knowledge is a social construct. You know stuff because you share stuff, the meaning must be directed to lenguage in order to function. So if you can express meaning to someone then you can build knowledge between : )
Fabulous. The brain has its own world, culture, with or without all the perceived senses. There are more than we even know!
This man will be missed indeed.
So much respect for such an inspiring, amazingly insightful, strong and curious mind :)
One of the best channels in CZcams!
I really recommend the man who mistook his wife for a hat.
Starphysics Picked up this book today :) The man was amazing!!
its incredible
Amazing as usual!
hoa hoang +
This definitely falls in a top fav 5 for me. I adore everyone of your vids and am ecstatic when new content comes up.
Thank you for these.
More amazing work by this channel. I love you guys!
Keep up the good work guys I'm lovin these videos!!!
I love these insights!
Wonderful !
Really awesome art,even better content!
What a fun fact to know that Oliver Sacks was on my island of Curaçao.
Hope I'm not being insensitive, but are you colourblind?
Thanks for ar caption 💙إستمر صديقي
I love this channel. Thank you for putting these out. Do you accept submissions?
I want the full interview please
Very interesting
I love these videos so much.
Honestly who can’t tell if a banana is ripe by the feel of it? How can anyone not know this?
I think you ought to do one on shane macgowan!
Miss him. He had and used also an incredible dictionary of words
Bog bess you, Dr. Sachs. You are missed.
Loved the video! And I really loved the music you used in the video but I can't find the track under any of the tracks you listed in the description - am I missing something?
our apologies, the wrong songs were listed. discover these amazing artists:
“Part VI” Jahzzar
“CGI Snake” Chris Zabriskie
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oh, thank you :)
Holy shit that first song feels so much like Silent Hill.
These cartoons do NOT do Oliver Sacks justice, especially with the opening of how blindness is more important then vision
Just think if you were color-blind?
You blessed player🙏🏾✨
-FrancBlac317 (ig)
I really love the illustration style but this is not a good likeness of Oliver Sacks' facial expressions - the sneery eyebrows and down-turned mouth make him seem way too haughty. Oliver Sacks was very humble and quite shy, but he made up for his shyness through his enormous enthusiasm and curiosity. Perhaps the illustrator has fallen for the stereotype that all English intellectuals are dispassionate and aloof?
I'm sorry you did not take to our creative interpretation. No such effect was intended. Thanks for watching.
Additionally - I’m not sure if the “native” representation is correct…seems a bit stereotypical
the word of the day : catharsis
hehe sacks...
wrg, no such thing as isolatiox by that, or about more people , more people with xx or bigx can be just inferiox, not that stong. no sweat etc for that or any. can reject any no matter what, ts not legitimate etc or not
Huh
second
I, as a Doctor in Biblical Biology, declare there is no such thing as a ripe green banana fruit on God's colourful earth. I call Puppetypoop!
U missed the point. If you perceive it as ripe and it’s ripe in your mind, it’s your experience. A banana changes it’s ripeness everyday. If you only can tell by sight you only have one primary way to perceive ripeness. The colorblind used a combo of perceptions to better inform them of the ripeness; therefore the person with one perception is narrow minded. Have you ever tried to look at something outside of how you alone view it or have you just been told or read what your experiences should be? A person who doesn’t look for answers through experience is living a life of narrow single minded ways of looking at growth. They become constricted not able to construct any new ideas. The biggest change of history was invented by people who had new ideas outside of a routine normal society. Often they were oddballs because they were ahead of the present times that were really old ways of thinking.
@@jameswimberly9897 I will not let reality restrict me! God created me with a FREE will and it's downright blasphemous to adhere to reality, thou shalt not serve two masters, it's either God or reality, pick one!!
@@jameswimberly9897 ...and I will add puppetypoop!!
@@jameswimberly9897 satirical/he’s a troll lol