A very rare interview from Canadian Television circa 1977. Warner Troyer interviews Patrick McGoohan about the making and meaning of the 1960's T.V. series "The Prisoner" in front of a live studio audience.
Charles Limb | cochlear implantations can’t distinguish music, yet — a TEDMED Talk | San Diego, California; October, 2011
(These are my personal transcriptions paraphrased during Limb's talk.) We don't just want sensory function; we want beauty. A cochlear implantation does provide hearing for the spoken word; however, when considering sensory restoration of beauty, wrt music, research has a long way to go. Charles Limb, who is an implantation surgeon, says that if he lost his hearing at the cochlear level, he would be heartbroken, because that would have been the one sense he would not have wanted to loose: music would never be the same.
It is unusual that humans can hear music. Music is one of the strangest things there is. Little acoustic, energy waves floating onto and tickling our eardrums somehow transmit energy down the hearing bone, which somehow converts to fluid impulses inside the cochlear that then somehow convert into electrical signals in the auditory nerve that somehow wind up in our brain as a perception of a song or a beautiful piece of music. Research can't tell us yet how something that started out in the air can produce something emotional.
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Charles Limb | Your Brain on Improv — a TEDxMidAtlantic Talk | November, 2010
[TED NOTES.] Charles Limb has two titles on his official website: Associate Professor, Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, and Faculty, Peabody Conservatory of Music. He combines his two passions to study the way the brain creates and perceives music. He's a hearing specialist and surgeon at Johns Hopkins who performs cochlear implantations on patients who have lost their hearing. And he plays sax, piano and bass.
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by foistlastus » Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:14 pm 
