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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

— David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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