American - Scientist | April 25, 1971 -
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
David Eagleman
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I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
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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.
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The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.
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I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
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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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Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
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I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
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