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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
Author
Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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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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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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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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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
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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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A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.
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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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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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The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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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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There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
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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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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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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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You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
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