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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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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
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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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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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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
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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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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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As Carl Jung put it, In each of us there is another whom we do not know. As Pink Floyd sang, There's someone in my head, but it's not me.
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