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Brain Quotes by David Eagleman
- Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of…
- Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as…
- You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
- The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but…
- What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
- It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what's happening in your…
- Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as…
- A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a…
- Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
- Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
- There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
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- A full belly makes a dull brain — Benjamin Franklin
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman