You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.
David EaglemanAfter all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.
David EaglemanInstead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
David EaglemanAll creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
David Eagleman