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

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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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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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
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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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If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.
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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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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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