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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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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.
David Eagleman
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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We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.
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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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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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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
David Eagleman
If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
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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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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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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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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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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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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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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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If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.
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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.
David Eagleman
This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
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