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Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
David Eagleman
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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.
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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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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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I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
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You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
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The brain runs its show incognito.
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All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the benevolent end of the furious living and furious dying.
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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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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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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.
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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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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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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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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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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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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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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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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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