Quote

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.

David Eagleman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
Author
Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
Hundreds
Blinding
Cells
Electrical
Second
Output
Single
Sends
Brain
Represented
Photon
Times
Combined
Pulses
Light
Pulse
Photons
Would
Cell
Trillions

More quotes by David Eagleman

Image
The brain runs its show incognito.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.
David Eagleman
Image
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
David Eagleman
Image
The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
David Eagleman
Image
Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
Love was not specified in the design of your brain it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
David Eagleman
Image
As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
David Eagleman