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• Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

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• Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don’t stop.

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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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• It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

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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.

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• As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

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• Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

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• I always bounce my legs when I’m sitting.

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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.

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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.

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• I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

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• I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

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• My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

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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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• My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

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• Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

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• Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

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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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• The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it’s probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.

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• The three-pound organ in your skull – with its pink consistency of Jell-o – is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we’ve dreamt of building.

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David Eagleman (26)

Birth:	25th April, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Neuroscientist, Writer

About

David Eagleman was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is an American neuroscientist and writer at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. He is best known for his work on brain plasticity, time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw. He earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in 1998. Eagleman's work of literary fiction, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, is an international bestseller published in 28 languages. Eagleman's science book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain is a New York Times bestseller.

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