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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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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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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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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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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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All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
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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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Vision is more than looking.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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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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If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
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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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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
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After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.
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