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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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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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When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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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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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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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
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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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Love was not specified in the design of your brain it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
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A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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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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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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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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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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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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We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.
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