“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
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
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
