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"David Eagleman may be the best combination of scientist and fiction-writer alive."
- Stewart Brand
"Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness."
- The New Yorker
"What Eagleman seems to be calling for is a new Enlightenment."
- Sunday Herald
"David Eagleman offers startling lessons.... His method in both Sum and his new book, Incognito, is to ask us to cast off our lazy, commonplace assumptions."
- The Guardian
"[A] neuroscientist and polymath."
- Wall Street Journal
"David Eagleman is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun"
- New York Times
"A popularizer of impressive gusto...[Eagleman] aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars."
- New York Observer
Newest Book
LiveWired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. David Eagleman. August 25, 2020.
Writing
From the Blog
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Houston Modern Luxury's Men of Style
I had the honor of being selected as one of Houston Modern Luxury's Men of Style.
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The Mystery of Expertise
To the extent that consciousness is useful, it is useful in small quantities, and for very particular kinds of tasks. It's easy to understand why you would not want to be consciously aware of the intricacies of your muscle movement, but this can be less intuitive when applied to your perceptions, thoughts, and beliefs, which are also final products of…
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The Umwelt
The "umwelt" is the slice of an animal's ecosystem that it can sense. The rest is invisible....
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A new map of the human brain
New paper in Nature describes the most highly detailed map of the human cortex so far.
In other news...
6 Ways the Internet Will Save Civilization
Read David's new article in Wired magazine: "Apocalyse? No. Six Ways the Internet Will Save Civilization"
New Scientist time story
New Scientist magazine features David Eagleman's time perception research as their cover story.
Book of the Week
Sum was selected as Book of the Week by both The Guardian newspaper and The Week newsmagazine.
