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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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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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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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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
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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.
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You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.
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Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.
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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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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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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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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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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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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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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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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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