“ So why does the world appear stable to you when you’re looking at it? Why doesn’t it appear as jerky and nauseating as the poorly filmed video? Here’s why: your internal model operates under the assum… David Eagleman
“ As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me. 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 the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance o… David Eagleman
“ Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water. David Eagleman
“ You gleefully say, “I just thought of something!”, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, y… David Eagleman
“ Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed. David Eagleman
“ As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and re… David Eagleman
“ There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing. David Eagleman
“ Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done so. In point of fact, He unintentionally knocked over the first domino by creating a palette of atoms… David Eagleman
“ Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways of fluids… David Eagleman
“ Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. David Eagleman
“ 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. David Eagleman
“ Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems. David Eagleman
“ There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken… David Eagleman
