David Eagleman quotes

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. (David Eagleman)
What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance. View quote
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A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. View quote
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows. View quote
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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain. View quote
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Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you. View quote
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Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city. View quote
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing. View quote
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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology. View quote
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I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. View quote
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It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what's happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information. (David Eagleman)
People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent. View quote
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What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true! View quote
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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. View quote
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time. View quote
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You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you. View quote
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There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. View quote
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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them. View quote
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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time. View quote
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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. View quote
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The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity. (David Eagleman)
Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations. View quote
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The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment. View quote
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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing. View quote
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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. View quote
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