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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

David Eagleman

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
Author
Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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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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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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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.
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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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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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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
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