David Eagleman
David Eagleman
David Eaglemanis an American writer and neuroscientist, serving as an adjunct associate professor at Stanford University in the department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. He also independently serves as the director of the Center for Science and Law. He is known for his work on brain plasticity, time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a council member in the World Economic Forum, and a New York Times bestselling author published in 28 languages. He is the writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.
My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.
The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.