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• When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to receptors in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, and the binding mediates a pleasurable feeling that becomes associated with that female. This locks in the monogamy, which is known as pair-bonding. If you block this hormone, the pair-bonding goes away.

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  Block, Feelings, Brain

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• Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

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  Choices, Brain, Democracy

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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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  Action, Social Network, Biology

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.228, Vintage

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• Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.

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  Numbers, Brain, Mind

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.226, Vintage

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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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  Atoms, Scales, Galaxy

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.66, Canongate Books

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• Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

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  Battle, Outcomes, Behavior

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• We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. That understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.

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  Running, Cells, Years

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• If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyperreligiosity (an obsession with religion and feelings of religious certainity), hypergraphia (extensive writing on a subject, usually about religion), the false sense of an external presence, and, often, the hearing voices that are attributed to a god. Some fraction of history´s prophets, martyrs, and leaders appear to have had temporal lobe epilepsy.

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  Religious, Sweet, Writing

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• Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young women who stay current with the scientific literature may demand genetic tests of their boyfriends to assess how likely they are to make faithful husbands.

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  Husband, Men, Faithful

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.108, Vintage

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• Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

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  Understanding, Mind, Generations

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.232, Vintage

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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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  Scales, Consumed

  David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Tales from the Afterlives”, p.33, Canongate Books

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• Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

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  Years, Mind Blowing, Next

  "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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• Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

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  Drink, Spit, Humans

  David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Tales from the Afterlives”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

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  Successful, Trying, Adults

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• What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Vastness, Teach

  "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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• Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.

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  Dream, Real, Commitment

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.55, Vintage

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• Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

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  Jobs, Machines, World

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.45, Canongate Books

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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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  Goal, Doe, Consciousness

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.61, Canongate Books

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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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  Thinking, Brain, Mountain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.228, Vintage

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• All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the "benevolent" end of the furious living and furious dying.

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  Goal, Mind, Dying

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.203, Vintage

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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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  Two, Eight, Crime

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.167, Vintage

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• ...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

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  Reality, Collision, Battered

  David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives”, p.110, Vintage

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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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  Brain, Tasks, Way

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.81, Vintage

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• The brain runs its show incognito.

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  Running, Brain, Shows

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.12, Vintage

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• Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.

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  Giving, Brain, Information

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.54, Vintage

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