There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
David EaglemanModern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.
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 EaglemanBrains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.
David EaglemanIn the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy, and makes itself seen, heard, smelled, tasted, felt - "perceived." But a closer examination of the data suggests this is incorrect. The brain is properly thought of as a mostly closed system that runs on its own internally generated activity.
David Eagleman