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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
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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Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in the simplest explanation is probably correct, also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
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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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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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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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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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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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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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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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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
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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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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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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 brain runs its show incognito.
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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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I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
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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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Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.
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