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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
David Eagleman
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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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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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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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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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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 always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
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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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Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Vision is more than looking.
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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.
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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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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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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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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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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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