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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
Author
Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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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 know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.
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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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Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.
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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
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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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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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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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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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All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
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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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Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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