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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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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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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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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. 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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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
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It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the same rules that objects at larger scales follow, and that we perceive what is really out there. All of these positions were long defended by argument from parsimony, and they were all wrong.
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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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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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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions of pulses in your brain by a single photon of light, the combined output would be blinding.
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I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
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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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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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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.
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If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
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You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
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