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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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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
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University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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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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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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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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Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
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The brain runs its show incognito.
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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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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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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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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.
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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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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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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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The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.
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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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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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Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
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