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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
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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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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I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.
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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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Love was not specified in the design of your brain it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
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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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If you have certain problems with your brain but are raised in a good home, you might turn out okay. If your brain is fine and your home is terrible, you might still turn out fine. But if you have mild brain damage and end up with a bad home life, you're tossing the dice for a very unlucky synergy.
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Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
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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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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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