Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David EaglemanA mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.
David EaglemanSince you always lived inside your own head, you were much better at seeing the truth about others than you ever were at seeing yourself. So you navigated your life with the help of others who held up mirrors for you. People praised your good qualities and criticized your bad habits, and these perspectives - often surprising to you - helped you to guide your life. So poorly did you know yourself that you were always surprised at how you looked in photographs or how you sounded on voice mail. In this way, much of your existence took place in the eyes, ears, and fingertips of others. And now that you’ve left the Earth, you are stored in scattered heads around the globe. Here in this Purgatory, all the people with whom you’ve ever come in contact are gathered. The scattered bits of you are collected, pooled, and unified. The mirrors are held up in front of you. Without the benefit of filtration, you see yourself clearly for the first time. And that is what finally kills you.
David EaglemanConstant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.
David EaglemanStichwörter: neuropsychology human-perception
Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
David EaglemanInstead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
David EaglemanStichwörter: science reality brain
There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
David EaglemanStichwörter: science mind brain
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 of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.
David EaglemanStichwörter: science emotion balance rationality
Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.
David EaglemanStichwörter: science evolution artificial-intelligence
Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.
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