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Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be. (David Eagleman)
It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us. View quote
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our reality depends on what our biology is up to. View quote
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The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control. View quote
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Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain. View quote
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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness. View quote
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If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront. (David Eagleman)
Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young women who stay current with the scientific literature may demand genetic tests of their boyfriends to assess how likely they are to make faithful husbands. View quote
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One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is "out there" in the same way that a movie camera would. View quote
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Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception. View quote
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Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you. View quote
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All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network. View quote
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I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around. View quote
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Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world. View quote
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This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them. View quote
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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. View quote
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One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way. (David Eagleman)
Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out. View quote
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The brain runs its show incognito. View quote
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality. View quote
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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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