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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.

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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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.
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As Carl Jung put it, In each of us there is another whom we do not know. As Pink Floyd sang, There's someone in my head, but it's not me.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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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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This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
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When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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To a space alien or a German Shepherd dog, two humans would be indistinguishable, just as attractive and unattractive space aliens and German Shepherd dogs are difficult for you to tell apart.
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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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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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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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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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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.
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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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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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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.
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