The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“To my mind, that’s a bigger and brighter idea than sitting at a lonely center surrounded by cold and distant astral lamps.” — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what's… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
None of the individual metal hunks of an airplane have the property of flight, but when they are attached together in the… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“In 1714, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that matter alone could never produce a mind. Leibniz was a German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing… — David Eagleman Copy Share
Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world. — David Eagleman Copy Share
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet. — David Eagleman Copy Share
We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them. — David Eagleman Copy Share
“with the knowledge that you cannot appreciate the destination without knowing the starting point; you cannot revel in the simplicity unless you remember the… — David Eagleman Copy Share
“If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something… — David Eagleman Copy Share
The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated… — David Eagleman Copy Share
When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal… — David Eagleman Copy Share
The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment. — David Eagleman Copy Share
Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion.… — David Eagleman Copy Share
“As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning… — David Eagleman Copy Share
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast… — David Eagleman Copy Share
When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away… — David Eagleman Copy Share
“Platoons and plays and stores and congresses do not end - they simply move on to a different dimension.” — David Eagleman Copy Share
Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the… — David Eagleman Copy Share
