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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
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
David Eagleman
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.
David Eagleman
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 life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the benevolent end of the furious living and furious dying.
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
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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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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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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions of pulses in your brain by a single photon of light, the combined output would be blinding.
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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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Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.
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Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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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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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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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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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.
David Eagleman
We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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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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