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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
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University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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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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This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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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 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 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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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.
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You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.
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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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