Quote

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

David Eagleman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
Author
Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
Direct
Biological
Action
Internals
Life
Internal
Immediate
External
Access
Actions
Steered
Neither
Acquaintance

More quotes by David Eagleman

Image
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
Vision is more than looking.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
David Eagleman
Image
All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
David Eagleman
Image
You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
David Eagleman
Image
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
David Eagleman
Image
I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
David Eagleman
Image
Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in the simplest explanation is probably correct, also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.
David Eagleman
Image
Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
David Eagleman