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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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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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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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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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One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is out there in the same way that a movie camera would.
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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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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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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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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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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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