“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 for the last time.”
―
David M. Eagleman,
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“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 M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“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 and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, that trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, that this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and that these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. To me, that understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.” ― 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
“It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.” ― David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“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
“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
“We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.” ― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.” ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us.Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.” ― David Eagleman
“When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.” ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“What if I told you that the world around you, with its rich colors, textures, sounds, and scents is an illusion, a show put on for you by your brain? If you could perceive reality as it is, you would be shocked by its colorless, odorless, tasteless silence. Outside your brain, there is just energy and matter.” ― David Eagleman, The Brain: The Story of You
“Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.” ― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.” ― David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“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, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“You don’t perceive objects as they are. You perceive them as you are. Each” ― David Eagleman, The Brain: The Story of You
“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.” ― David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.” ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.” ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“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 M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“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 and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, that trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, that this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and that these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. To me, that understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.” ― 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
“It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.” ― David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“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
“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
“We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.” ― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.” ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us.Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.” ― David Eagleman
“When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.” ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“What if I told you that the world around you, with its rich colors, textures, sounds, and scents is an illusion, a show put on for you by your brain? If you could perceive reality as it is, you would be shocked by its colorless, odorless, tasteless silence. Outside your brain, there is just energy and matter.” ― David Eagleman, The Brain: The Story of You
“Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.” ― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.” ― David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“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, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“You don’t perceive objects as they are. You perceive them as you are. Each” ― David Eagleman, The Brain: The Story of You
“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.” ― David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.” ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.” ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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