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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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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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A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.
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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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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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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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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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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
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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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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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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
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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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If you have certain problems with your brain but are raised in a good home, you might turn out okay. If your brain is fine and your home is terrible, you might still turn out fine. But if you have mild brain damage and end up with a bad home life, you're tossing the dice for a very unlucky synergy.
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Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.
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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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Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
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Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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