The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.
David EaglemanAll creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
David EaglemanIn our current understanding of science, we can't find the physical gap in which to slip free will - the uncaused causer - because there seems to be no part of the machinery that does not follow in a causal relationship from the other parts.
David EaglemanThink about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.
David Eagleman