Quote

The brain runs its show incognito.

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
Runs
Brain
Show
Running
Shows
Incognito

More quotes by David Eagleman

Image
Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
David Eagleman
Image
Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.
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
As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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
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.
David Eagleman
Image
This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
David Eagleman
Image
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.
David Eagleman
Image
It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
David Eagleman
Image
If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
David Eagleman
Image
Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
David Eagleman
Image
What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
David Eagleman
Image
We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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
Vision is more than looking.
David Eagleman
Image
People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
David Eagleman
Image
Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.
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
Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
David Eagleman
Image
Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
David Eagleman