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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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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
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University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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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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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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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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If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
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The brain runs its show incognito.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference between being awake and being asleep is merely that the data coming in from the eyes anchors the perception.
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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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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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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
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You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
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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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After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.
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