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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
David Eagleman
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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.
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A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
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