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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

David Eagleman
Literature, British, University

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.

David Eagleman
Writing, Lenses, Academic Work

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.

David Eagleman
Emotional, Brain, Balance
David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.95, Canongate Books

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.

David Eagleman
Self, Skulls, Consistency
David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.6, Canongate Books

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

David Eagleman
Evolve, Solutions
Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

David Eagleman
Afterlife, What Matters, Joy
"David Eagleman: 'We won't die - our consciousness will live forever on the internet'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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