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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
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Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.
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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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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
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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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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
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Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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If you have certain problems with your brain but are raised in a good home, you might turn out okay. If your brain is fine and your home is terrible, you might still turn out fine. But if you have mild brain damage and end up with a bad home life, you're tossing the dice for a very unlucky synergy.
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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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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
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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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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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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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