David Eagleman

“if you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight…

— David Eagleman

“One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is “out there”…

— David Eagleman

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming…

— David Eagleman

“The drives you take for granted (“I’m a hetero/homosexual,” “I’m attracted to children/adults,” “I’m aggressive/not aggressive,” and so on) depend on the…

— David Eagleman

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out…

— David Eagleman

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're…

— David Eagleman

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it…

— David Eagleman

“So who you are at any given moment depends on the detailed rhythms of your neuronal firing. During the day, the conscious…

— David Eagleman

The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way:…

— David Eagleman

“Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a…

— David Eagleman

“All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be…

— David Eagleman

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in…

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“That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had suffered, both sides had legitimate…

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In the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy,…

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“Albert Camus introduced his philosophy of the absurd, in which man searches for meaning in a fundamentally meaningless world. In this context,…

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When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to…

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This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still…

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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…

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When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the…

— David Eagleman

“Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions…

— David Eagleman

Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids…

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None of the individual metal hunks of an airplane have the property of flight, but when they are attached together in the…

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“But does this imply the bizzare prediction that you can substitute one sense for another? In the other words, if you took…

— David Eagleman