If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet. — 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
“if you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn’t be smart enough to understand them.” — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If you have certain problems with your brain but are raised in a good home, you might turn out okay. If your… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The brain internally simulates what will happen if you were to perform some action under specific conditions. Internal models not only play… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions… — 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
If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but… — 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
When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If you cannot always elicit a straight answer from the unconscious brain, how can you access its knowledge? Sometimes the trick is… — 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
