David Eagleman Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.

  David Eagleman

  Color, Giving, Female

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.54, Vintage

• Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.

  David Eagleman

  Giving, Brain, Information

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.54, Vintage

• We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. That understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Cells, Years

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is "out there" in the same way that a movie camera would.

  David Eagleman

  Mistake, Believe, Giving

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.25, Canongate Books

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