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 EaglemanTags: life death memory human-condition existentialism
Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
David EaglemanTags: empathy god human creation existentialism
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
David EaglemanTags: science life love death human-nature afterlife existentialism physics philosophy-of-religion
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
David EaglemanTags: life god religion existentialism
Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done so. In point of fact, He unintentionally knocked over the first domino by creating a palette of atoms with different shapes. Electron clouds bonded, molecules bloomed, proteins embraced, and eventually cells formed and learned how to hang on to one another like lovebirds. He discovered that by simmering the Earth at the proper distance from the Sun, it instinctively sprouted with life. He's not so much a creator as a molecule tinkerer who enjoyed a stroke of luck: He simply set the ball rolling by creating a smorgasbord of matter, and creation ensued.
David EaglemanTags: science
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.
David EaglemanSince 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 EaglemanTags: life death memory representation
The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
David EaglemanThey come to understand, with awe, the complexity of the compound identity that existed on the Earth. They conclude with a shudder that the Earthly you is utterly lost, unpreserved in the afterlife. You were all these ages, and you were none.
David EaglemanI came here for the same reason doctors wear uniforms of long white coats...They don't do it for their benefit, but for yours.
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