The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.
David EaglemanAll activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
David EaglemanWe are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.
David EaglemanIt turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of whatโs happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.
David Eagleman