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The brain runs its show incognito.

David Eagleman

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
Author
Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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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.
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If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.
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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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Those with Anton's syndrome are not pretending they are not blind they truly believe they are not blind. Their verbal reports, while inaccurate, are not lies. Instead, they are experiencing what they take to be vision, but it is all internally generated.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in the simplest explanation is probably correct, also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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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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We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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