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Vision is more than looking.
The brain runs its show incognito.
I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.
Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.
My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.
Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.
All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.
...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.
We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.
We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.
I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.
This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
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.
Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.