This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
David EaglemanSince we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.
David EaglemanWe open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clearโand really just in the last few centuriesโis that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us. Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.
David Eagleman