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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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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
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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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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
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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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Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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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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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
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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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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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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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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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All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the benevolent end of the furious living and furious dying.
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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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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