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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.

David Eagleman

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
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This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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As Carl Jung put it, In each of us there is another whom we do not know. As Pink Floyd sang, There's someone in my head, but it's not me.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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The brain runs its show incognito.
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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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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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Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
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Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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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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Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
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