All Quotes by David Eagleman
“My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.”
“It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.”
“The brain is a complex system, but that doesn’t mean it’s incomprehensible. Our neural circuits were carved by natural selection to solve problems that our ancestors faced during our species’ evolutionary history. Your brain has been molded by evolutionary pressures just as your spleen and eyes have been. And so has your consciousness. Consciousness developed because it was advantageous, but advantageous only in limited amounts.”
“Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.”
“My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.”