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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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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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Vision is more than looking.
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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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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
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Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.
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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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You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
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