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Further Reading/Viewing: “The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound,” by A. R. Luria.
THE MAN WITH A SHATTERED WORLD: THE HISTORY OF A BRAIN WOUND by A. R. Luria; Translated from the Russian by Lynn Solotaroff; with a Foreword by Oliver Sacks, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1972 by Michael Cole. Foreword copyright © 1987 by Oliver Sacks.
“Zjoek/Zhuk,” written and directed by Erik van Zuyen (1987):
Lev Zasetsky could have been an anonymous human data point in history’s largest conflict — just another one of tens of millions of casualties in World War II, the treatment of which stretched deep into the Cold War. But his particular brain injury was so peculiar that he drew the interest of Alexander Luria, the Soviet Union’s most accomplished neuropsychologist, as Lev became a complex mix of scientific oddity and miracle.
Zasetsky’s form of aphasia resulted in him being able to write, but not read his own writing or even understand all of what he had written. It’s a case that delves into the earliest history of Popular Science and reframes our modern understanding of psychology, history, language, communication, and the human spirit.
#science #coldwar #future
@Derpy1969
November 25, 2024 at 5:08 pm
Do a video on the Flying Car Coming next year for Every year it was on the cover of Popular Science.
@rolfknappmann
November 25, 2024 at 5:15 pm
{your funny comment about the leader of your most hated political party of choice, here}
@TommyCrosby
November 25, 2024 at 5:28 pm
It’s crazy that the myth of “we only use 10% of our brain” still lingers on when we have case studies of brain injuries like that. The whole reality of what we experience and do is caused by the sum of all our brain.
@BreezyMoonWaves
November 25, 2024 at 5:34 pm
“I’ll Fight On.”
Very sad to hear the horrifying life he dealt with after his injury, but wow was that man’s ability of self preservation incredible.
@RisingRevengeance
November 25, 2024 at 5:36 pm
As sad as his life was it was also very fascinating. I wonder how some of his abilities came back.
Did his brain allocate another part of it to relearning basics? Or was it achieved by connecting a few fragments he still had left here and there? I know I’m asking questions without clear answers but it is interesting to think about.
@kandylover139
November 25, 2024 at 5:38 pm
This is so fascinating. But he lived until 1993 and nobody ever took this man for a CT scan?! Imagine the data!
@Nirakolov
November 25, 2024 at 5:46 pm
And he became president twice!
@ak634
November 25, 2024 at 5:49 pm
But this sentence was actually pretty weird. Especially as a non native english speaker.
@luttman23
November 25, 2024 at 5:52 pm
I developed aphasia about a decade ago, I have episodes of 5 minutes to a few hours where I just can’t understand speech or writing or speak or write, but otherwise I am fine. It can be embarrassing though, you can’t tell people what’s happening, but you can see concern or confusion on their faces. I’ve had a couple of brain scans but no one has found anything. I had an episode today that lasted about half an hour, so I went an did some laundry.
@wiiza4ever
November 25, 2024 at 6:01 pm
His name is pronounced Lyev. Not “lev”.
@Bugbugado988
November 25, 2024 at 6:23 pm
This is beautiful and sad at the same time
@RascalCatify
November 25, 2024 at 6:34 pm
I know a lot of people that live without a brain…
@unmanaged
November 25, 2024 at 6:36 pm
Does this explain autism?
@benmcreynolds8581
November 25, 2024 at 6:44 pm
I love this channel so dang much!
@garrisonfjord
November 25, 2024 at 6:48 pm
You made a video about me? That’s so nice.
@movieedge7370
November 25, 2024 at 6:55 pm
Life with no brain are we talking about Trump? 😂
@redcat9436
November 25, 2024 at 6:57 pm
TDS is a serious mental health problem today. Please get help.
@dynamikeRusso-u2e
November 25, 2024 at 7:06 pm
my wife was crushed by forceps while being born. the intern grabbed her head and caused lifelong brain damage. she is so negative and cant find happiness and is stuck in childlike behavior.
@Chaosfury50
November 25, 2024 at 7:10 pm
14:00 I didn’t understand the damn paragraph either.
@AndrewBerube41
November 25, 2024 at 7:21 pm
I miss the vsause days. I’m happy that you make these vids though!
@JourneysADRIFT
November 25, 2024 at 7:24 pm
Another banger of a video. Great job 👍
@nabri-nfg3262
November 25, 2024 at 7:26 pm
I wonder if there is a movie about this
@GreenAppelPie
November 25, 2024 at 7:49 pm
Just like everyone who voted for Trump again in 2024
@iNinBreak
November 25, 2024 at 8:07 pm
vsauce?
@shaggy5percent
November 25, 2024 at 8:19 pm
Man I’m never going to finish this video, I stopped at the 2:00 minute mark and thought about the effects of college students going to war for an hour.
@michaelwagner6877
November 25, 2024 at 8:25 pm
Trump
@elyakimlev
November 26, 2024 at 10:16 am
Sounds like he would have been a genius with an IQ of 140+ if he hadn’t had that injury. Who knows what he could have contributed to science. Such a shame..
@rogerarrysheldon8394
November 26, 2024 at 10:29 am
Youtube.com/@theporthuronstatement
@Blizky
November 26, 2024 at 11:33 am
Sounds like trying to read or use the phone in a dream
@Ceelvain
November 26, 2024 at 12:07 pm
Thanks for sharing this story.
The way his brain worked after his injury really reminds me of how LLMs (like ChatGPT) act. They mostly work by intuition, but struggle when it comes to making logic connection or deductions.
@maplobats
November 26, 2024 at 12:28 pm
This isn’t that unique. I’d estimate that approximately 30% of the population is living without a brain. It can even be a significantly higher percentage in some countries, (especially ones that are about to be ‘made great again’).
@CONNELL19511216
November 26, 2024 at 12:32 pm
A R Luria’s groundbreaking book ‘The Working Brain’ was our bible when I was studying neuropsychology. Luria was the founder of the discipline
@TigerAceSullivan
November 26, 2024 at 12:34 pm
it is fascinating to learn about what can cause aphasia, especially the sort where you Understand, somewhat, but cannot form the words; and relate that to my own experience with aphantasia, or with selective mutism.
@TigerAceSullivan
November 26, 2024 at 12:45 pm
“what was the point?” to share his experience as a human, just like all humans like to do, with the desire to communicate what their existence is to others? to tell his story? maybe hoping that his life goes on to inspire others and progress research? to prove that he can? im not sure, but i feel like if i were in such a situation, id also be trying just as hard to communicate in some meaningful way with others
@kailomonkey
November 26, 2024 at 1:40 pm
With 25% less brain is hardly no brain. He writes that it’s like having no brain in relation to recall so I can see that excuse for the title. Also it seems it was a vital portion of the brain that connects us with reality and losing that makes sense to have felt like living in a disconnected nonsense dream. Not being able to connect the things in our brain would make our every thought, skill and memory completely useless but present. What a nightmare to live.
@VaterOrlaag
November 26, 2024 at 2:39 pm
Wow nice clickbait
@JustsomeSteve
November 26, 2024 at 3:43 pm
I’m truly speechless. That is real horror!
@loveislove4879
November 26, 2024 at 4:17 pm
My cousin is a construction worker. One day at work he fell and a piece of rebar impaled his brain through and through. Amazingly he survived!
@johnlynch-kv8mz
November 26, 2024 at 5:01 pm
15:05. Right now, that’s where I’m sort of at. Not exactly , but enough. It is frustrating when one knows one knew better.
@johnlynch-kv8mz
November 26, 2024 at 5:06 pm
19:16. A miracle even Siddhartha would have appreciated.
@johnlynch-kv8mz
November 26, 2024 at 5:08 pm
20:22. That he could observe, comprehend and write succinctly( about this phenomenon), that we have an understanding is astonishing.
@jasek911
November 26, 2024 at 5:14 pm
Trudeau?
@johnlynch-kv8mz
November 26, 2024 at 5:15 pm
23:46’ in other words, Lev was made to believe as a child does, when he knew prior , he taught as a professor.
I bet along the way, he had glimpses of his past. but was made to start over again and again. He could never really give up, it seems to me , having just heard of him. Thank you for sharing . I am grateful.
@johnlynch-kv8mz
November 26, 2024 at 5:18 pm
24:29. Poignant words to end with!!
@plederfagella9774
November 26, 2024 at 5:54 pm
I feel for this guy, got a number of tbis
@Crit-Multiplier
November 26, 2024 at 6:12 pm
i would love to know the name of the music you used.. stunning tracks that really underlined the topic. great choices
@Timmel7
November 26, 2024 at 6:55 pm
Downvote and unsubscribe. What happened to this channel/this creator?!
@DustinRodriguez1_0
November 26, 2024 at 7:10 pm
Wow… he was pretty lucky his injury happened when it did. You know how blithering idiots will trot out “the brain isn’t done developing until age 25” when they want to denigrate young people? The neuroscientific fact that they are misusing to support their prejudices is that around age 25, neuroplasticity in the brain tends to fall dramatically. So if Lev had gotten injured just a short time later than he did, his ability to adapt to his injured state would likely have been greatly reduced. I’m always fascinated by reading case studies about unique brain injuries or problems, they are very often extremely informative. Oliver Sacks’ (RIP) books are all wonderful. Learning ways in which the brain can go wrong and what consequences that has on the subjective conscious experience of the injured person can give great insight into how the brain operates to produce that experience for us.
I am particularly interested in the fact that when he was pushing himself to write, he would experience headaches the following day… I wish he wrote about his diet, and what he was eating. The brain is one of the most energy-hungry organs in the human body, and he was very likely pushing his extremely hard which would have sucked up a lot of glucose (the primary energy source for the brain, although it can shift to ketones if glucose is in short supply, but that might’ve been what led to his headaches, constant switching is metabolically pretty messy).
It stuns me that even with the existence of works like Lev’s book, most people still believe in the notion of dualism – that there is a separation of some fundamental kind between the mind and body. How much clearer could it be that our consciousness is a direct product of the operation of our body?
@adjacent891
November 26, 2024 at 7:22 pm
I had this argument with my botanical teacher. I said do you need a brain to think?
@oneandahalfbastards
November 26, 2024 at 7:25 pm
KEVIN!!!!! Good to see ya buddy!
@Traderjoe
November 26, 2024 at 7:27 pm
My father developed aphasia during a stroke. It was absolutely terrible. Cherish whoever you can communicate with. Cherish your ability to clearly communicate and express yourself. Life must have been so frustrating for him.
@ericswain4177
November 27, 2024 at 3:07 pm
The Brain ? better off without it if you knew the real truth.
@Marauder1981
November 27, 2024 at 3:27 pm
Just for everyone´s information, I´m still living and I´m Germany´s president.
@roryoneill9444
November 27, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I thought this was going to be about a MAGA voter…
@handbananaistherapist642
November 27, 2024 at 5:13 pm
Code Blue Cam . . . . get to know your kammy voter!
@KonsoleFaust
November 27, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Legend has it, he went on to be elected President of the United States in 2016 and then again in 2024!
@JohnRyan-f2n
November 27, 2024 at 4:04 pm
Its hard to believe that flame throwers are allowed in warfare.
@jaimehudson7623
November 27, 2024 at 4:19 pm
What a cool and fascinating subject! So many mysteries of the brain and of memory, like Mandela Syndrome.
I agree with one view I have heard before: the brain is a filter, and our consciousness exists independent of that.
@tabularasa0606
November 27, 2024 at 4:46 pm
Having no brain is very common nowadays. Many millions of people keep supporting complete idiots.
@unknownperson-wb3vh
November 27, 2024 at 4:46 pm
Lucky
@djayjp
November 27, 2024 at 4:55 pm
Reported for being misleading due to the (clickbait af) title.
@stephenlangsl67
November 27, 2024 at 5:11 pm
I wonder if the Nootropics that they have around today would have helped Him. And if so, then how much?
@thomasrush2095
November 27, 2024 at 5:20 pm
They left out the part where the ‘other’ man with no brain was elected President of the United States in a landslide this year.
@KittenKatja
November 27, 2024 at 5:27 pm
> 5 confirmed kills
> “I have been murdered”
Why speak of murder when it hits you?
@DEADGAMESINC
November 27, 2024 at 5:38 pm
And this poor man described his horrible experience of living with zoomer tiktok brain…
@John-oe5nb
November 27, 2024 at 5:48 pm
He was a democrat.
@imnotmike
November 27, 2024 at 5:57 pm
Haven’t we heard enough about Donald Trump?
@bryanmartin6443
November 27, 2024 at 6:05 pm
censorship is like telling a man he can’t have a steak because an infant can’t chew it.
@DrSuperKamiGuru
November 27, 2024 at 6:12 pm
I thought this was going to be about Trump.
@tomgeorgsderholm4554
November 27, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Michrocephalus…
Most gunfananic americans have this malfunction
@yuriserigne5524
November 27, 2024 at 6:25 pm
this strange visual impairment sounds exactly like migraine with aura:
parts of the field of view just disappear or are very fuzzy, which happens in the brain and not in the eyes
@mrkmh1
November 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Many people in the U.S, are walking around without brains they have even formed a club calling it MAGA.
@christianhoffman7407
November 27, 2024 at 6:43 pm
14:00 Listen to that and then listen to Lev’s, the patient, interpretation of it. I swear to god it sounds *exactly* like that orange fella. Look up his “never fight uphill me boys, never fight uphill” senior moment in Pennsylvania.
@simonbroberg969
November 27, 2024 at 6:44 pm
Still suffer from dysphasia on occasion, got axed in the head’96 recovered a lot. built an international website was getting 4 million hits a year. Had a problem reading and writing for a while.. well still do a bit, but we got spellcheckers and the like. I could rebuild a motorcycle. Learned hot to do more than the old on cam inline fours and built a few 16valve twin cam engines, got the chance to get me bike licence back after practicing computer game bike racing and got the concentration .. doctor said no to me getting my licence back as he was worried I’d go kill myself on a bike, after hearing I was depressed.. told him I was only depressed as he wouldn’t let me ride a bike, so got the test, passed with zero faults on the practicle, a fe faults on theory.. my bikes were old, so no need for indicators, they asked me when to hazard lights.. none of my bikes even to this days had those fitted, but I passed anyway (2000) Still on my 92 CBR900RRn (the unrestricted version which I have been riding for 14 years) So I can tell you the brain is an amazing thing. I mean several presidents have managed to live without them somehow, think a few of out PMs are the same now, so I wouldn’t think this story too amazed, think the ones I mentioned were born without them in the first place.
@DeutschlandGuy
November 27, 2024 at 6:55 pm
The Man Who Lived with No Brain …. trump?
@cieludbjrg4706
November 27, 2024 at 7:25 pm
Read the book. “The man with a shattered world”, by Luria. We get to know this man who lost the world. A very very very touching story. Him using a day to just form a word on paper to begin with. His patience and tenacity. A highly recommendable read. Thanks for bringing this important work to light again!
@lynseypiccolo6408
November 27, 2024 at 7:44 pm
did he have to do acid?
@_--Reaper--_
November 28, 2024 at 1:48 pm
That guy was a _No Brainer_
@user-qs1xz2mx6f
November 28, 2024 at 2:05 pm
Diese künstliche Stimme schmerzt!
@wankZkills
November 28, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Damn, somehow every teammate in games I play suffer from the same disorder
@FriedAudio
November 28, 2024 at 2:19 pm
Oh, will they stop tormenting poor ‘ol Joe Biden??
@cragasm
November 28, 2024 at 2:23 pm
I already live like that
@bennybongosbigolebonanza894
November 28, 2024 at 3:00 pm
Thought this was about potheads.
@glareff
November 28, 2024 at 3:08 pm
Today those people are called woke
@kevinf8439
November 28, 2024 at 3:31 pm
I was expecting a documentary about Robert Habeck.
@thuff86
November 28, 2024 at 3:38 pm
Duckduckgo is literally the definition of UNTRUSTWORTHY. Give me a break.
@GettingSchwiftyy
November 28, 2024 at 3:46 pm
This was a misleading video. It’s not that bad.
@peybak
November 28, 2024 at 4:23 pm
The give away is the red hat…
@JanyaAndromedaGalactic
November 28, 2024 at 4:29 pm
I KNEW IT, this is bloody CLICKBAIT, only QUARTER (1/4) of brain was damaged developing aphasia – losing the ability to understand language and over time objects stop making sense, right side was missing for him and orienting in space became impossible, resulting in block for receiving, processing and retaining information form world around! the VITAL organ controlling parts were unharmed! Over long rehabilitation with speaking and writing training he learned to communicate again very basic way while having NO memory of anything but childhood, unable to do literally ANYTHING else! SAVE 24 minutes of your life, that is the entire plot of the video, plus stupid duck duck go shady sponsor at “sweet spot” of video!
@sebastianwepunkt4794
November 28, 2024 at 4:44 pm
I thought this video would be about Donald Trump 😁
@anovosedlik
November 28, 2024 at 5:26 pm
That’s cruel punishment–you’re both partly brain dead, and yet the other part KNOWS and has to watch you be brain dead. It’s amazing he managed to train his brain to use other parts in order to compensate…but only to a certain degree. Bless him; he’s a hero twice over.
@TheCoolBigD
November 28, 2024 at 5:35 pm
Is this a story about Justin Trudeau?
@alexojideagu
November 28, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Is this video about Trump?
@RickMason-yj7pv
November 28, 2024 at 5:52 pm
Trudeau? Putin? Trump? Singh? Stop teasing!!
@michaelgotanco4917
November 28, 2024 at 6:09 pm
Now folks, as you have watched the video effortlessly and read these comments without much of an afterthought that I hope you’d never take for granted how tirelessly our brain works 24/7 to help us navigate through the extreme complexities of life that we take for granted in our every waking day like we never had a care in the world. We do. And we have every good reason to be thankful for everyday for living a pretty seemingly uneventful boring life of loving and helping others and having fun as we spent our daily routines not fearing what the future has in store for all of us.
Live it as if it your last day on earth folks.
@Raketenclub
November 28, 2024 at 6:09 pm
grauslig schlechtes ki video. danke. tschuess.
@dr.drakeramoray789
November 28, 2024 at 6:39 pm
well i got clickbaited into that one..
@stephenkaake7016
November 28, 2024 at 6:43 pm
I was picked by God for a special program, now I am the smartest man in the world
@thewayithastobe
November 28, 2024 at 7:14 pm
I thought this video was about me
@mr.sessle8444
November 28, 2024 at 7:23 pm
I had a brain injury during c19 and lost my memory and its spooky to hear someone else has gone through it. I wasnt as bad for as long but it still hurts to use reality at times
@myathehappy_1
November 28, 2024 at 7:45 pm
A lot of people live with no brain, I’ve met many of them throughout my life.
@xro5841
November 28, 2024 at 8:02 pm
The solution is both Simple yet impossible.
He retained enough brain function for the normal processes to continue to ATTEMPT normal function BUT, the connections were going nowhere. All the paths lead to bottomless pits or dead ends. Hate to say it, but More Brain needed to be removed. Function was going down a Path that lead no where and there were no Detour Options once at a certain point. Since the process was not Blunted before the actual point of no return to begin with there was no option to try & go around the problem.
A ‘receives’ & transfers to B which then ‘translates’ & sends to C, C simply connects the Received & Translated data to D. But D No longer exists. Therefore C was still functioning properly and everything got lost. Need to Block C so that B has to transfer to a new path. The Brain “COULD” have attempted a work around (Slim to none) but could not see the problem therefore never even tried.
This process is Simple under normal brain function but his was no longer normal. Figuring out how to Detour or block the flow at or before C, Pretty sure Impossible without the intervention of, or a Miracle of God.
Just a lay persons opinion.
@ШиринбегГаджалиев
November 29, 2024 at 7:32 am
Half of people lives having no brain or not using brain
@lisapinfold506
November 29, 2024 at 7:40 am
After having a left side stroke, it damaged my right visual field. Had a period of time where I couldn’t process visual info on that side. Very frustrating. Improved over time, thankfully
@yukyumee
November 29, 2024 at 7:50 am
Fun fact (maybe not so fun but at least might be interesting: i was born with dysphasia (mild levels), which is basically aphasia and both are considered the same just dysphasia is a less severe form of aphasia. It’s not as well known but dysphasia causes can be other than traumas or injuries of the brain since i was born with it. Its just not well known. I’ve noticed that people in my family on my mom’s side, some will genuinely struggle more with language, my mom herself seems to have a mild form of dysphasia as well but was never diagnosed. It doesn’t affect other forms of intelligence though. I have come to the conclusion that dysphasia can be caused by genetics in rare cases. I’m not sure for aphasia though since aphasia is a more severe case of dysphasia.
I have been followed by specialists and therapists for my language troubles when i was a kid, and it doesn’t show a lot today but i still search my words regularly, still mix words in both speeches and writing, still write sentences sometimes that arent structurally correct, and it took a lot of time and effort before i could master language enough that it wouldn’t show so bad when i speak (because trying to remember words and how they interact with each other literally takes a heightened time and effort for me). English isnt my first language and learning english took me years to learn even though being regularly exposed to it and practicing everyday. The consequences of aphasia/dysphasia can be very cruel, as one of the thing i suffered from the most was being isolated from your peers. Trying to communicate but never being able to follow conversations as quickly as others, never being able to tag into conversations without making it awkward. It lead to me having a lot of social anxiety trying to connect with others but knowing you’ll have trouble to fit in because you have trouble understanding simple conversations. Im glad to say though that my effort finally bears its fruits even if it isn’t quite perfect and i still have much to learn about languages, at least it isnt as bad as it used to be.
@judge831
November 29, 2024 at 7:58 am
Misleading title. The video should be called the man who lived with 3/4 of a brain.
@necrobuster1
November 29, 2024 at 8:04 am
Pls never activate Audiotrack ever again.
@Brian-Ahavah
November 29, 2024 at 8:15 am
It seems to me that Lev lost his ability to analyze his experiences, but not himself. Perhaps he should’ve just learned to accept his experiences and devote his efforts to focusing on why he felt the need to analyze everything, but himself? Don’t we all do that?
@paveljackel6393
November 29, 2024 at 8:52 am
me every dayajkesdhgvjkladhuikgfn. LOL
@grahamfleming8139
November 29, 2024 at 9:37 am
A fantastic candidate for a new prime minister of England 😅 now now far too intelligent.
@gwils7879
November 29, 2024 at 9:46 am
Really makes yah realize that humans are only as good as their brain works – people go through their entire lives with problems that land them in prison, on the street, etc, all because their brain doesn’t work the way everyone wants it to.
Badly exacerbated by the fact that literally everyone assumes everyone’s actions to be “free will.”
You ARE your brain
@chilltex9807
November 29, 2024 at 10:34 am
People with no brains is not exceptional, example Kamala supporters, however many million voted for her, we know there are at least that many people living with this condition.
@J2897Tutorials
November 29, 2024 at 10:42 am
Aphasia… I had no idea that what I experienced at the age of 6, after a 2ft long engineering screwdriver penetrated my skull, had a name.
I was paralyzed down the right side of my body for about a year. I could perceive the world clearly. I understood everything everyone was saying, although I could not speak for many months.
When I did try to speak I was about as coherent as Chewbacca, which caused people to talk to me as though I was a little baby, which constantly pissed me off.
@Kr0N05
November 29, 2024 at 10:49 am
I thought for sure this was about Trump – interesting otherwise.
@J2897Tutorials
November 29, 2024 at 11:03 am
13:56 – Reading stuff like this, all throughout school, was a nightmare. LOL
The crazy thing is, whenever I was at home reading computer magazines (my hobby) I understood pretty much everything, including the code snippets.
@J2897Tutorials
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 am
19:27 – This is very relatable. We were told to write everything the teacher had wrote on the blackboard into our own blank lined books with a pen. My handwriting was probably the fanciest in the whole class, although when I was questioned on the topic I had just wrote about, I barely had any inkling of anything in the text.
@alphaomega4968
November 29, 2024 at 1:34 pm
Brings to mind the diving bell and the butterfly
@robertchagnon9063
November 29, 2024 at 1:39 pm
There is a lot of people living whitout a brain, look at all Woke people, Maga followers, and all religious disciples….
@forthebestresultsonalldevices
November 29, 2024 at 2:02 pm
He appears as someone wanting to help you protect yourself through his sponsor, yet proceeds to add ads to the video selling his audience to the marketing overlords jajaja the irony jajaja is too much 😅
@dickpawlak354
November 29, 2024 at 2:29 pm
With a title like that it was a no-brainer that I’d watch it!
@forthebestresultsonalldevices
November 29, 2024 at 2:57 pm
Great video, but this will be my first and last. I wish YouTube had a warning for when videos are drenched in ads, because it’s gotten to the point where watching feels like a test of endurance. It’s hard not to see it as a reflection of a bigger, more sinister truth — that these videos are not about art or storytelling, but about business, and the audience is the product. Creators have become middlemen, selling out their audiences for a few dollars, like Judas betraying the Son of God for 30 pieces of silver. Their content must bow to the altar of monetization, or it will be sacrificed to obscurity. If their art strays too far, it can’t be ‘monetized’ — they can’t sell, us, their audience to advertisers. So, they bend and shape their work, sacrificing authenticity for profit. What was once a craft has become a chain, binding creators and viewers alike to the relentless machine of ad revenue. Every ad is a reminder that we live in a world where deceit and self-interest are the rules, and where the soul of creativity has been sold for a quick buck. It’s heartbreaking to watch — the art, the passion, the connection all being drained away like a vampire leeching life in the dark. The more ads I see, the more I know that we’re witnessing the slow death of storytelling, replaced by a cold, corporate calculus. I can’t watch this anymore. Even if the video was great, even if the story was masterfully told, it’s not worth the price of being sold.
@theheroformula-org
November 29, 2024 at 3:40 pm
Oops, I thought this was a Biden doc.
@zipperpillow
November 29, 2024 at 4:49 pm
I know a guy who has his whole brain, and he is still an idiot. Sad, but true.
@JessieI
November 29, 2024 at 6:47 pm
YAY FOR DUCK DUCK GO!!! Finally an ad I can get behind!!!
@JessieI
November 29, 2024 at 6:49 pm
Sadly, it is WAR and VA HOSPITALS that provide for more medical progress than nearly anything else on this planet.
@WowplayerMe
November 29, 2024 at 6:53 pm
Oh man this is totally clickbait!! When I hit play, I thought it was going to tell me about Democrats.
@sucktitles
November 30, 2024 at 1:54 am
14:19 My response to decipher what I just heard would be pretty much the same.
@BeKind-ve4id
November 30, 2024 at 2:01 am
This looks like a National Enquirer headline.
@censortube3778
November 30, 2024 at 2:18 am
Not sure what the big deal is, Facebook is full of flat earthers who live without a brain
@marshaemily2465
November 30, 2024 at 3:19 am
I hope he understands now wherever he is how much purpose his life did have and his contribution to medical science. Thankyou Lev for your contribution tot humanity.
@theloststarbounder
November 30, 2024 at 4:35 am
DuckDuckGo has been caught many times selling data. You can’t have both DuckDuckGo and privacy in the same phrase
@Wolf_Phantomstein
November 30, 2024 at 5:09 am
The book which was written by Alexandr Luria about this exact case is called The lost and then returned world. The story of the wound (Потерянный и возвращенный мир. История одного ранения). I don’t know if it exists in English, but this video is probably based on it.
@4DCResinSmoker
November 30, 2024 at 6:01 am
He sounds like a Trump voter.
@EmigdioFrixione-c5k
November 30, 2024 at 6:03 am
Meh. Check the crowd of people without a brain. Politicians and TV news hosts (script readers).
@norbertschmitz5297
November 30, 2024 at 7:23 am
absoluter ai crap
@wladfan
November 30, 2024 at 1:04 pm
This video is about you mate
be more appreciative
@livestrong456
November 30, 2024 at 8:19 am
Wait. So he did have a brain or he did not? I’m six minutes in and they said he lost a quarter of his brain. Is that the answer?
@gabbyn978
November 30, 2024 at 8:33 am
Please don’t use automatice voice translation, th german one results in the voice of a bored teenage girl that doesn’t bother to pronounce properly,
@AH-cy4md
November 30, 2024 at 9:06 am
What we know about the human body is tiny compared to what we don’t know
@AH-cy4md
November 30, 2024 at 9:09 am
My MIL had a stroke and ended up paralyzed on the right side and had aphasia. Attempts to communicate, and speech therapy, were rejected by her, she wouldn’t even try to communicate. It wasn’t clear if she understood what was said to her. She lived like that for 3 years.
@HikikoAmore
November 30, 2024 at 9:11 am
the answer is very simple: modern neuroscience is full of shit. they make baseless claims all the time about the cortex, and they are just flat WRONG. the cortex is a harddrive. that is its primary function. it is not a CPU. the cpu is in the brainstem, with auxiliary processing offloaded to the cerebellum. the entire cortex is just memory. (its quite a bit more sophisticated than our harddrives, and it does a lot of processing within it similar to Compression, encryption, file allocation table organization, etc. but these are all tertiary computing systems. NOT the primary computer. that includes the coveted pre-frontal cortex which is simply the last piece of the cortex that develops as a human grows (because it is the last piece of cortex that developed evolutionarily) and any link between the contents of the prefrontal cortex and the “maturity” of an individual is CORRELATIVE not causative. ie, the prefrontal cortex stores a lot of personal development that is gained in the early 20s because thats the most fresh part of the brain ready for memories in the early 20s AND our society making children believe they are children until 18 causes the vast majority of people to have the same life experiences in their 20s (having to learn to be self reliant, have a job, pay bills, ie grow up.) and this also explains the exceptions very easily.
There are MANY many cases of people losing 40 50 60 70 % of their entire Cortex’s and going on to lead completely normal lives (in some cases they didnt even know they were missing most of their brain until they were in their 50s, had families and careers and never had a clue anything was wrong) this is quietly shuffled under the rug by big neuroscience because they want to keep getting new grants for new research, so they have to keep selling big fancy lies to the people who write them new checks, otherwise the investors get bored and give someone else the money.
when things go truly wrong with neuroprocessing, its either damage to the stem, cerebellum, or down the center of the cortex (an area which is infact an extension of the stem not just a chunk of cortex). otherwise poking around in the cortex just really screws up peoples memories (including subconscious memory like colors and sounds). this is how you get true stories like the chicken that survived decapitation and lived on for another month with nothing but the base of its brain stem still attached to its body. it had become incredibly stupid but it was surprisingly still able to eat food to a degree, and its body was reasonably autonomous (clearly a lot of body movement processing is actually done by the spinal nervous systems.)
this shouldnt even be remotely surprising. we are creatures that evolved linearly from an ancient ancestor which had not but a tiny speck of a brain. we still have that speck of brain, and all of the eons of evolution simply added on to that speck of brain like a Mr Potatohead doll, attaching more and more and more new blocks so the brains got bigger and bigger. but its all based on the same old original operating system buried deep in the brain stem. we can watch the brain develop in embryos and we can see it happen. i dont understand how it is so easy for society to be fooled by atrocious fake science (ie general neuroscience, not to mention many other fields)
@leiflevin3479
November 30, 2024 at 10:02 am
Bla bla bla
@wladfan
November 30, 2024 at 1:04 pm
Hey look!
You show up in this video
@Jan-m4n1q
November 30, 2024 at 10:11 am
Maybe are bodies carrying natural instinct. And can be without brain sometimes.
@Jan-m4n1q
November 30, 2024 at 10:34 am
Maybe even though science deals with facts it’s not concrete. Maybe science can be adaptive like the brain can adapt to certain situations we go through in life.
@cactusfloydx5d
November 30, 2024 at 11:06 am
I thought this was about woke people… fascinating
@TheTrock121
November 30, 2024 at 11:28 am
Joe Biden never had a brain, and he was elected President!
@enuma7
November 30, 2024 at 11:52 am
I know such people, a former colleague of mine was one of them……
@Lisorael
November 30, 2024 at 12:58 pm
When I consumed THC with alcohol, I experienced something no one else in the group did. My perspective shattered into bits, and I was unable to understand my own thoughts. I couldn’t keep hold of time, and if I began to speak, I would forget, moment by moment, which words I’d already spoken. However, I could let my original intentions take over, and I would speak entire sentences, and even communicate my apologies to the others for my total collapse (everyone else was just baffled, and I was lying on the ground, over a trash can), which I’m told sounded entirely coherent and rational, despite how I felt.
I had to remind myself over and over that I wasn’t just listening to background noises, or a sitcom on TV. I kept dissociating to such immense degrees that I thought the dissolving images of the plastic bin liner in the trash were all that ever existed…
If I had to live through a day of that, let alone 25 years, it would absolutely not be of my own volition.
@UCVOmXnVB724jCE5iNcl
November 30, 2024 at 2:13 pm
The title is click bait. There is absolutely no person that can live without a brain. A person can live with a damaged brain but if you have no brain, then you are dead.
@lbdjthethird1240
November 30, 2024 at 3:53 pm
“I’ll Fight On” is some seriously inspiring stuff. Dude never stopped trying and that is beyond commendable.
@rejinc
November 30, 2024 at 5:21 pm
Yes he is president elect,,,,
@maiaallman4635
November 30, 2024 at 6:50 pm
I had a major stroke towards the end of 2019, just before COVID. Seeing as I’m quite nerdy, and my brain is the best bit about me, that was fairly devastating. I decided that I will live my life such that I can one day refer to the stroke as “the best thing that ever happened to me”.
@ricklamb772
November 30, 2024 at 8:53 pm
Quit picking on Jos Biden,the tin man on the wizard of oz.
@MYNAME_ABC
November 30, 2024 at 9:39 pm
Interesting video, but the ad peddling is awful, as usual.
@RedHair651
November 30, 2024 at 10:03 pm
At first I thought the video was going to be about me
@keatomic
November 30, 2024 at 11:06 pm
Could’ve been a host on “The View”
@domingo2977
December 1, 2024 at 12:19 am
I always got your magazines but i’ve never knew you guys made videos!
@openperspective
December 1, 2024 at 3:01 am
I am glad that as I scrolled down to comment about dementia, the first comment I saw was about exactly that. to @terrastar6850 , I hope that once the ailment takes that strong a hold, that they aren’t experiencing it in such a dark way anymore. Such has been my experience, and I hope that it holds true. /All we can ever do for those we hold dear is hold them close in our hearts and Pray that it means something
@damianbylightning6823
December 1, 2024 at 4:43 am
We have millions of people in Britain with this condition – they are called ‘Labour voters’.
@stavros222
December 1, 2024 at 4:44 am
Because a part of his brain was damaged doesn’t mean he had no brain. I have heard about someone that everything inside his brain was liquid for some reason
@jaksacuravic9694
December 1, 2024 at 8:07 am
There are lots of people in the world that live with no brain
@Dark-m5j
December 1, 2024 at 11:16 am
73years? With this condition. This shows poverty is terrible
@kappasphere
December 1, 2024 at 1:01 pm
I don’t appreciate having the title outright lie to me
@_evildoer
December 1, 2024 at 1:21 pm
Title “no brain”, actual story “lost 1/4 of his brain”. Fuck off with the clickbait
@runderwo
December 1, 2024 at 5:56 pm
19:50 To be fair, when I look at a word like ‘golovokruzheniye’, I just can’t understand it either. So we’re not that far apart, he and I.
@FourthDerivative
December 1, 2024 at 10:59 pm
– The Logan Paul Story
@photonboy999
December 2, 2024 at 1:21 am
Sorry, I thought this was about MAGA…
@serbiankanyewest
December 2, 2024 at 1:29 am
My ranked mates
@bingisboy
December 2, 2024 at 3:21 am
Fight on, brothers.
@Nooticus
December 2, 2024 at 4:54 am
Phenomenal video. I wish these were still part of the Vsauce ‘brand’ though, although all the sources from popular science are cool too
@S13l_Um3n0
December 2, 2024 at 5:58 am
bro.. the way you pronounced головокружение(go-lo-vo-kru-zhe-ni-e) is so funny to me, as a Russian😭 not in a negative way, it’s just — idk man
@cabeloDoPardal2
December 2, 2024 at 6:38 am
17:00 portuguese translation of audio made whole = hole at this point.
@Mayhamsdead
December 2, 2024 at 7:08 am
Crazy to think they made an entire documentary about a Harris voter.
@bonagorv2s976
December 2, 2024 at 7:29 am
Average Twitter user
@swissbiggy
December 2, 2024 at 10:18 am
Isn’t there a special orgainisation for people with no brain ? If I am correct it is called NATO ??
@DeeGKay
December 2, 2024 at 10:32 am
You cannot live without a brain! Typical “science” always have to spread misinfomation!
@RosaPfeffer1
December 2, 2024 at 10:35 am
Grauenvolle Ki Übersetzung und schlecht gelesen Schade
@mariannevanoostenbrugge3541
December 2, 2024 at 10:55 am
dissapointing,. suggestive misleading title, ( to catch views )
@BloodDripss
December 2, 2024 at 11:25 am
another incredible video kevin. love to see these videos for popular science!
@goerkelgoerkeli
December 2, 2024 at 1:05 pm
eine ganz schlechte KI Leistung, Worte werden ständig falsch ausgesprochen, Teile fehlen und die Betonung ist unter aller Kanone, Sprecht selbst oder macht nicht solche Videos, ist ja eine Zumutung
@mikatu
December 2, 2024 at 1:09 pm
The harsh reality is that our brains exist to keep us alive, therefore they filter all the other information out.
When we die and we get free from our brain we can experience so much stuff that we never realized existed around us. And yes, when we die we keep our memories, in case you thought everything was going to sh1t. Our brains are not that great to be fair, because they limit us so much!
@albertsenm
December 2, 2024 at 2:11 pm
This AI-synchronization is awful.
@willguggn2
December 2, 2024 at 6:58 pm
The automatic AI dub makes this unwatchable. I can’t even turn it off on my device.
@alexneeson7514
December 3, 2024 at 1:33 am
Ich kann mir diese ki Stimme und die Tonlage nicht anhören.
@pietjepuk9575
December 3, 2024 at 1:48 am
Just like 80 % of ALL Americans . 😁😁😁😁🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
@littlefrank90
December 3, 2024 at 4:16 am
Oh look, a video talking about me
@juliamaki4145
December 3, 2024 at 4:48 am
blösinniges Video, mit KI Sprache und nem Moderator ? Hirnloses Teil, tatsächlich
@quochuyhoang9764
December 3, 2024 at 6:45 am
sounds like my rank teamate
@ZOMBiECYGIG
December 3, 2024 at 7:18 am
Vsauce?
@rassulbolatkanuly3844
December 3, 2024 at 7:42 am
Man, it’s no surprise for us, we know thousands of people with this condition in our government 🇰🇿
@gabrieleduville2497
December 4, 2024 at 12:57 pm
eccomi
@TheRealNewWhirledOrder
December 4, 2024 at 11:28 pm
9:18 What’s even more important than none of us ever having seen any evidence of a whirling, twirling, hurling, hurtling, wibbling, wobbling, zipping, zooming, rushing, rolling, twisting, turning, spinning and spiraling space ball, spherical “globe” earth is that none of us has ever seen any evidence that “space” is what we’ve been told it is.
@denorangebanan
December 26, 2024 at 2:15 pm
oh god, a flerfer
@TheRealNewWhirledOrder
December 26, 2024 at 2:36 pm
@denorangebanan “a flerfer”
I’m not a “flat earther”, although it, certainly, seems that way to me.
All I’m saying is, again, what’s even more important than none of us ever having seen any evidence of a whirling, twirling, hurling, hurtling, wibbling, wobbling, zipping, zooming, rushing, rolling, twisting, turning, spinning and spiraling space ball, spherical “planet” earth is that none of us has ever seen any evidence that “space” is what we’ve been told it is.
Including you.
@TheRealNewWhirledOrder
December 26, 2024 at 2:36 pm
@denorangebanan Try to find a demonstration of a pressurized environment alongside a vacuum with no physical barrier between the two.
You cannot.
Try to find a demonstration of uncontained air pressure.
Again, you cannot.
@TheRealNewWhirledOrder
December 26, 2024 at 2:36 pm
@denorangebanan We are told that the deepest anyone has ever drilled into the surface of the earth is roughly eleven kilometres (6.35 miles) down yet we are also told that the core of the earth is twenty nine hundred kilometres down.
Earthquakes are measured with a seismograph up to a depth of only seven hundred kilometres.
Ground penetrating radar can only reach a maximum depth of one hundred feet (or thirty meters) in dry, low conductivity, materials and that is in the best of conditions.
It’s usually much less.
Try to find some evidence that verifies that the core of the earth is made of and doing what we’re told it is made of and doing.
Also, how can anyone know what supposed planets and stars that are supposedly millions and billions of supposed light years away are composed of right down to their supposed cores?
@TheRealNewWhirledOrder
December 26, 2024 at 2:37 pm
@denorangebanan Regarding the sun, try to find a working demonstration of a heat and light source heating and lighting a surface while the distance between that heat and light source and surface is left cold and dark.
Try to find some evidence that light, and heat, can travel as far as they say they can (millions and millions and millions and millions of miles) and then, again, while leaving its path both cold and dark.
@chaosgirl3778
December 5, 2024 at 12:11 am
Habe das Video nach 5 Minuten gestoppt. Diese KI Stimme ist nicht zu ertragen. Daumen runter
@SotraEngine4
December 5, 2024 at 3:22 pm
I’m an aspie (autistic for those who wants it politically correct) and sometimes under great emotional stress or a shutdown, I lose my ability to speak in my native language. But I am quite capable of speaking English or to write
@doggo4918
December 5, 2024 at 5:01 pm
I put the speed on 1.5x and it’s like he’s speaking normal, so strange
@Dayholly86
December 6, 2024 at 12:25 am
Clickbait title, but an interesting story about a severe brain injury.
@Jchot
December 6, 2024 at 1:20 am
TOO MUCH FILLER
@Jchot
December 6, 2024 at 1:22 am
poor story telling. too much side info
@mimavox-swe
December 6, 2024 at 1:47 am
This must be the most clickbaity title ever 🙁
@ivan17316
December 6, 2024 at 6:09 am
They didn’t think about Russians there (awful font) 2:15
@evil_radfem9162
December 6, 2024 at 11:12 am
I’ve noticed that this rare disease disproportionately affects individuals from this country: 🏳️⚧️
@helengrives1546
December 6, 2024 at 4:18 pm
Living without a thyroid, I have seen many small issues of different diseases. One of the biggest changes in brain function is dreams. They alter because of the state of the body. When I couldn’t run, I couldn’t run in my dreams. Totally bizar, because it was not that I couldn’t remember. It was like a reflection. My walking, running came back when my body was over 13 yeats into recovery. I jumped for joy because it meant that my body was reporting positive change. Since all what I had learned was gone, I secretly read my children’s homework to get things back. Totally bizar. I got a bit dislexia. Knowing something is wrong, but cannot tell what it is. The most valuable lesson I learned was that consciousness is through the whole body. Every cell communicates the whole and what I learned was from my cell memory that started talking back, taking decisions before I understood it was beneficial. It was as if I lost free will, because my body simply took over, made the decisions. These stories are a treasure trove. Insight in way more complex things. If you lose half of your vision. You forget that half. It also tells something about sensory input.
@annenelson5656
December 6, 2024 at 10:38 pm
TBI, stroke, MS… it’s amazing I have a brain. According to all the MRI’s I’ve had it’s still there though. I lost the use of my left eye. I wobble and trip, I drop things. It’s all quite annoying. Nevertheless I can still enjoy life and do stuff so … oh well c’est la vie, la vie.
@bobbuilder155
December 7, 2024 at 6:17 am
People who are older than 15 years have no brain in their head.😢❤
@JoeBloe-ft6eb
December 9, 2024 at 8:56 am
There are countless people living without brains. I think I’ve met most of them
@CaptainToadUK
December 9, 2024 at 10:47 am
I had a serious head injury as a kid and developed mild aphasia from it. Now and then I will “lose” a word three which has led me to develop a really wide vocabulary. I’ve learned over the years to not try and describe the word that I’m missing – that an get very embarrassing very quickly – and either change tack or find an alternative word. It can be very frustrating at times
@SilvioJCosta
December 12, 2024 at 8:06 am
Comovente essa biografia dos idosos que acamparam nas portas dos quarteis no final de 2022.
@MultiMobCast
December 14, 2024 at 11:14 am
well done my friend
@Julius37
December 26, 2024 at 10:36 pm
Habeck?!
@yts70r135
December 27, 2024 at 3:54 pm
You won my subscription, and you totally deserve a lot more. This was impressive, remarkable, touching, quite overwhelming