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Is there any reason to believe that it's not possible to have both racist and nonracist parts of the brain?
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Platoons and plays and stores and congresses do not end - they simply move on to a different dimension.
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Of all the Programmers' planets, ours is the supercomputing golden child, the world that inexplicably provides enough power to light up the galaxy.
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The emotional and rational networks battle not only over immediate moral decisions, but in another familiar situation as well: how we behave in time.
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Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.1 Pascal
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Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.
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Through practice, repeated signals have been passed along neural networks, strengthening synapses and thereby burning the skill into the circuitry. In
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Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.
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unconscious self-love
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My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.
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there is more than one way to lay down memory. We're not talking about a memory of different events, but multiple memories of the same event - as
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We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.
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Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.
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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.
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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Finding genetically distant partners is useful.
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The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.
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a virtuous person,
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In each of us there is another whom we do not know.Carl Jung
found in David Eagleman's book: Incognito — C. G. Jung
(known as the mesolimbic dopamine system)
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Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.
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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
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We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
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The enemy of memory isn't time; it's other memories.
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It appears that repeated social rejection perturbs the normal functioning of the dopamine systems.
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Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.
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This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
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Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.
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Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.
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Our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
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Serotonin - are critical for who you believe yourself to be. If
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tetrachromatic women.
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Scientist and baseball fan Mike McBeath set out to understand the hidden neural computations behind catching fly balls.
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I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
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Delaying gratification is difficult.
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Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.
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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
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You were all these ages, they concede, and you were none.
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One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.
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My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.
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Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
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You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change
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Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
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So modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
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The brain runs its show incognito. So who, exactly,
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Vision is more than looking.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
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Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.
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Political persuasion emerges at the intersection of the mental and the corporal. Traveling
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Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.
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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
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Conscious you believes it without question. And not merely believes it but experiences it.
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A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
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The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.
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All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
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I came here for the same reason doctors wear uniforms of long white coats ... They don't do it for their benefit, but for yours.
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Parts of the brain were making decisions well before the person consciously experienced the urge.14 Returning
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The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.46 Psychologist James Pennebaker and his colleagues studied what
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No one is having an experience of the objective reality that really exists; each creature perceives only what it has evolved to perceive.
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Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.
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If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.
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All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
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the brain doesn't care how it gets the information, as long
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To my mind, that's a bigger and brighter idea than sitting at a lonely center surrounded by cold and distant astral lamps.
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But our brains are always crushing ambiguity into choices.
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is able to resist that temptation.
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There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.
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When the men were choosing the most attractive women, they didn't know that the choice was not theirs, really,
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We spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely large scales of galaxies.
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Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
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I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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seeing has very little to do with your eyes.
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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alerting the system to contradictions relies critically on particular brain regions - and one in particular, called the anterior cingulate cortex.
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Remove the world and the show still goes on.
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Change blindness highlights the importance of attention: to see an object change, you must attend
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For some, the new addiction reached beyond gambling to compulsive eating, alcohol consumption, and hypersexuality.
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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
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The brain runs its show incognito.
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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advantageous decision making.
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