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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

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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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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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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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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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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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Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.
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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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When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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