David Eagleman Quotes

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Sometimes, I believe I actually see the wheels in my brain turning.

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.

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea - and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness.

He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

It may be true that only those minds which are habituated to think logically can safely trust their intuitive conclusions, on the theory that the subconscious level will do its kind of work as faithfully as the conscious does its kind.

The brain runs its show incognito.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.