David Eagleman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  David Eagleman

  Religious, Sweet, Writing

• 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

• The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

  David Eagleman

  Writing, Brain, Down And

  "The Possibilian". Interview with David Eagleman, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2011.

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