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David Eagleman Inspirational Quotes (75)

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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.
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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
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Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
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All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
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Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions of pulses in your brain by a single photon of light, the combined output would be blinding.
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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To a space alien or a German Shepherd dog, two humans would be indistinguishable, just as attractive and unattractive space aliens and German Shepherd dogs are difficult for you to tell apart.
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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
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Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.
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Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.
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At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.
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Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.
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We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.
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The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.
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