Quotes by David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

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Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratchetin — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing. — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard a — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet. — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop. — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
You gleefully say, “I just thought of something!”, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before y — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water. — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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 he — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you. — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: inte — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems. — David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain