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- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
- American Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
- Bounce
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
- Lens
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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.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
- City
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Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.
- Galaxy
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A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.
- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020