Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.
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 don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
David EaglemanVisual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.
David EaglemanIf you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying - it more likely signifies that they have worked hard in the past to burn the programs into the circuitry. Consciousness is called in during the first phase of learning and is excluded from the game playing after it is deep in the system.
David Eagleman