David Eagleman Quotes:
Ocupation: Neuroscientist
Life: b. April 25, 1971
Birthday: April 25
We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.
source: David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.157, Vintage
topic: Choices, Mind, Brain, Overlapping, Fabricate
