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David Eagleman Quotes

born 1971

David Eagleman (born April 25, 1971) is an American neuroscientist at Stanford University. He is best known for his work on sensory perception, time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw.

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Many great civilisations have fallen, leaving nothing but cracked ruins and scattered genetics.

Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind; it is not interested in committing to any particular story.

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

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

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 city.

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

It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

Some posts are full of doctoring and dishonesty whereas others strive for independence and impartiality — but all are available to us to sift through. Given the attempts by some governments to build firewalls, it’s clear that this benefit of the net requires constant vigilance.

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 single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Eagleman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.