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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.
David Eagleman
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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
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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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Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
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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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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.
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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.
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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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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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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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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.
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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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The brain runs its show incognito.
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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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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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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
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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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