We 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 EaglemanReductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.
David EaglemanPeople wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
David Eagleman