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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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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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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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Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference between being awake and being asleep is merely that the data coming in from the eyes anchors the perception.
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The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.
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At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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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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All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
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You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
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It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the same rules that objects at larger scales follow, and that we perceive what is really out there. All of these positions were long defended by argument from parsimony, and they were all wrong.
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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
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Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.
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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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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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