There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
Death… The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them
We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.
Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don’t stop.
Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.
There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.”Pink FloydDavid Eagleman
Each of us is on our own trajectory – steered by our genes and our experiences – and as a result every brain has a different internal life. Brains are as unique as snowflakes.
You´re not perceiving what’s out there. You’re perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.
My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.