"Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.












Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

More David Eagleman quotes
".. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them
"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 ...
"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...
"There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
"All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
"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 ov...