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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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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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American
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Rice
University
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You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.
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The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.
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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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Vision is more than looking.
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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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A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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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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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
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One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is out there in the same way that a movie camera would.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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The brain runs its show incognito.
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
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The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
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I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
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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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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
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