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David Eagleman

Né(e): April 25, 1971 – Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

David Eagleman is an American neuroscientist, author, and science communicator whose work explores the brain, perception, consciousness, and time. He is known for Incognito, The Brain, Livewired, and the novel Sum. His books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into dozens of languages.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

David Eagleman grew up in New Mexico and came of age at Albuquerque Academy, carrying an early fascination with perception and time that he later linked to a childhood fall from a roof, when a brief event seemed to stretch in his mind. His formal path was not linear. At Rice University he studied British and American literature, spent a junior year at Oxford, and only in his final semester discovered neuroscience, which he later described as his calling. He then earned a PhD in neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and completed postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute. ((https://www.aa.edu/2024/10/21/what-makes-david-eagleman-89-so-driven/))

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Citations

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Our experience of reality is constrained by our biology
-TED Talk: Can We Create New Senses for Humans?
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Humans are real storytelling animals: most of our lives we live in narrative form
-Meet the Author
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Our brains are like a neural parliament: we've got all these competing political parties fighting for control
-It's a Mistake to Think of Ourselves as Individuals
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I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance
-We Won't Die
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The important part about brains, the theory goes, is not the structure, it is about the algorithms that ride on top of the structure
-Silicon Immortality
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The conscious mind is like a broom closet in the mansion of the brain
-Math & Magic
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Time perception, just like vision, is a construction of the brain and is shockingly easy to manipulate experimentally
-Brain Time
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Instead of letting legislation ride on the winds of intuition and reaction, let's make our legislation evidence-based
-Why Public Dissemination of Science Matters

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"David Eagleman may be the best combination of scientist and fiction-writer alive"

Stewart Brand

"David Eagleman keeps the readers without medical degrees in mind in this pop science tome"

The National

"Eagleman aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars"

Observer

"Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down consciousness"

The New Yorker

"Eagleman’s skill as teacher, bold vision, and command of current research will make this superb work a curious reader’s delight"

Publishers Weekly

"Eagleman is a neuroscientist, that must have helped, but Sum has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius"

The Guardian

"David Eagleman is a 'Super Scientist' who has published Incognito and Sum"

The Independent

"Eagleman has a wealth of such observations, backed up with case studies, bits of pop culture, literary references and historic examples"

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