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Vision is more than looking.

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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
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We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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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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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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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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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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You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
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At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.
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If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand 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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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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