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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
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
David Eagleman
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
After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.
David Eagleman
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
David Eagleman
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.
David Eagleman
You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
David Eagleman
Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
David Eagleman
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.
David Eagleman
All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
David Eagleman
Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
David Eagleman
You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.
David Eagleman
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.
David Eagleman
Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.
David Eagleman
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
There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
David Eagleman
Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman
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.
David Eagleman
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.
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.
David Eagleman
Vision is more than looking.
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