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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
Author
Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the benevolent end of the furious living and furious dying.
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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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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.
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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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All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
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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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Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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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.
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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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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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You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.
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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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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
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After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.
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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.
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.
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