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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
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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Rice
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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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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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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
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Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
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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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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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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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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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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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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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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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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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As Carl Jung put it, In each of us there is another whom we do not know. As Pink Floyd sang, There's someone in my head, but it's not me.
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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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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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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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