Quotes by David Eagleman

David Eagleman

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

Creation

Ends

Fleeing

All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.

Dark

Life Is

All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the “benevolent” end of the furious living and furious dying.

Dying

Goal

Mind

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Empathy

Favors

Humanity

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

British

Literature

University

As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behavior. As a result, you can accomplish the strange feats of arguing with yourself, cursing at yourself, and cajoling yourself to do something – feats that modern computers simply do not do.

Battle

Brain

Different

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what’s in front of you.

Commitment

Dream

Real

Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.

Brain

Expectations

Jobs

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

Battle

Behavior

Outcomes

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

Brain

Choices

Democracy

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Abandon

Academic Work

Acquaintance

Action

Addiction

Adults

Afterlife

Airplane

America

Average

Balance

Battle

Behavior

Believe

Bigger

Biology

Blind Spots

Block

Book

Brain

British

Cells

Children

Choices

Cities

Colossal

Commitment

Consumed

Cosmos

Creation

Dark

Data

Deadline

Decision

Democracy

Depends

Details

Dies

Differences

Different

Dream

Drink

Drug

Dying

Earth

Effectiveness

Emotional

Empathy

Ends

Expectations

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Quotes by David Eagleman

David Eagleman

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

All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.

All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the “benevolent” end of the furious living and furious dying.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what’s in front of you.

Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

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