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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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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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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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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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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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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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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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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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