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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

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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Science
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Vastness
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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
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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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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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Those with Anton's syndrome are not pretending they are not blind they truly believe they are not blind. Their verbal reports, while inaccurate, are not lies. Instead, they are experiencing what they take to be vision, but it is all internally generated.
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To a space alien or a German Shepherd dog, two humans would be indistinguishable, just as attractive and unattractive space aliens and German Shepherd dogs are difficult for you to tell apart.
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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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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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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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You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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