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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.

David Eagleman

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Psychologist
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
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It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the same rules that objects at larger scales follow, and that we perceive what is really out there. All of these positions were long defended by argument from parsimony, and they were all wrong.
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I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
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To a space alien or a German Shepherd dog, two humans would be indistinguishable, just as attractive and unattractive space aliens and German Shepherd dogs are difficult for you to tell apart.
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is out there in the same way that a movie camera would.
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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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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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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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