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

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

— David Eagleman

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

— David Eagleman

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

— David Eagleman

“with the knowledge that you cannot appreciate the destination without knowing the starting point; you cannot revel in the simplicity unless you…

— David Eagleman

“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

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

— David Eagleman

When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak.…

— David Eagleman

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any…

— David Eagleman

Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a…

— David Eagleman

“As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking…

— David Eagleman

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand…

— David Eagleman

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

“Platoons and plays and stores and congresses do not end - they simply move on to a different dimension.”

— David Eagleman

Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed…

— David Eagleman

You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment…

— David Eagleman

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

— David Eagleman

The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these…

— David Eagleman

Imbalance of reason and emotion may explain the tenacity of religion in societies: world religions are optimized to tap into the emotional…

— David Eagleman

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many…

— David Eagleman

Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there…

— David Eagleman

We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are…

— David Eagleman

“And in this form, they find themselves longing to ascend mountains, wander the seas, and conquer the air, seeking to recapture the…

— David Eagleman

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

— David Eagleman

The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens…

— David Eagleman