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Marco Polo is alleged never to have gone to China, and to have culled his wealth of information from those returning via Venice.
How that relatesn to the subject of this comment, I have no idea; but it is stated by Neuro-physiologists. the object of their criticism is held in the highest esteem by myriads of adoring people who attend his lectures and demonstrations. He is the director of a club; the Center for Brain and Recognition, serving students and researchers from a number of universities in the USA.
He is renowned and held in high esteem for his apparent scant regart for technology assisted research. Instead he applies a simplistic and some say a pseudo-scientific approach to problems - by this he has generated many new ideas about brain function. The question is are these repeatable by experimental methods.
It was Richard Dankins who called him the Marco Polo of Neuro-science. Greg Hickoh, Professor of cognative Science at th University of California, Irvine has expressed the opinion that Professor Ramachandran engages in broad speculations that are not supported by a rigorous analysis of the facts: " the question is whether the science that is communicated is legitimate, i.e. based on a rigorous analysis of facts ( such that it can be seriously by bench scientists ), or whether the ideas are just wild speculations spun together into a nice story".
In 2012 he was co-authjor in inventing 'Alternating Gender Incongruity.
Peter Brugger at Zürich University Hospital criticised his book 'The Tell-tale Brain" as a pop-neuroscience book providing vague answers to big questions.
His response was: "I have - for better or worse, roamed the whole landscape of visual perception, stereopsis, phantom limbs, denial of paralysis, Capgras Syndrome, Synaesthesia and many others."
Question: When does he sleep?
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