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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
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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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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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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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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The brain runs its show incognito.
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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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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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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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This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
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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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Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.
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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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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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If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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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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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
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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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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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