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I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
David Eagleman
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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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New Mexico
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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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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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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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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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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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Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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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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