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Many „pathogens“ (both chemical and behavioral) can influence how you turn out; these include substance abuse by a mother during pregnancy, maternal s...more

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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...more

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As your trillions of new connections continually form and re-form, the distinctive pattern means that no one like you has ever existed, or will ever e...more

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.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

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You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

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If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more sub...more

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

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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 ...more

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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...more

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The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is m...more

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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

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There's someone in my head, but it's not me."Pink FloydDavid Eagleman

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All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

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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...more

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So why does the world appear stable to you when you’re looking at it? Why doesn’t it appear as jerky and nauseating as the poorly filmed video? Here’s...more