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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
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University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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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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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
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I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
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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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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
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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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The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.
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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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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.
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I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
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A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. 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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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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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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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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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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Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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