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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

David Eagleman

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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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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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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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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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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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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