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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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• 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.

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• What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

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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!

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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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• There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

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• There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

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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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• 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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• People wouldn’t even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

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

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

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

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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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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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