David Eagleman Short Quotes

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Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.

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Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.

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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.

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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.

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

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You are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.

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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

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

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You're not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

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Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

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

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

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We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.

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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

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If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

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Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

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All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

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This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

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Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

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All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.

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Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

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Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.

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You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

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Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.

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