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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.
David Eagleman
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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
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Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their 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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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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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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