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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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The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
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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.
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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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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.
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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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'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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Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in the simplest explanation is probably correct, also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.
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You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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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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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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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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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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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
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This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
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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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I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
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