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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
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University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
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If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
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I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
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Vision is more than looking.
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