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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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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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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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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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The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.
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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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All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
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I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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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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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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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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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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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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You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.
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