The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.
David EaglemanThis is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
David EaglemanVisual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.
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 Eagleman