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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the 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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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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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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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
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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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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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If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.
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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.
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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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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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Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
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All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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As Carl Jung put it, In each of us there is another whom we do not know. As Pink Floyd sang, There's someone in my head, but it's not me.
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