Imbalance of reason and emotion may explain the tenacity of religion in societies: world religions are optimized to tap into the emotional… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in… — 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
We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and… — 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 Image
Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
