﻿What if I told you that the world around you, with its rich colors, textures, sounds, and scents is an illusion, a show put on for you by your brain? If you could perceive reality as it is, you would be shocked by its colorless, odorless, tasteless silence. Outside your brain, there is just energy and matter.

You don’t perceive objects as they are. You perceive them as you are.

﻿In a sense, the process of becoming who you are is defined by carving back the possibilities that were already present. You become who you are not because of what grows in your brain, but because of what is removed.

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						"[A] neuroscientist and polymath." 
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						"David Eagleman is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun." 
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						"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." 
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						"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." 
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						"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					</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>
						"What Eagleman seems to be calling for is a new Enlightenment." 
						- Sunday Herald					</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>
						"David Eagleman may be the best combination of scientist and fiction-writer alive." 
						- Stewart Brand					</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>
						"[A] neuroscientist and polymath." 
						- Wall Street Journal					</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>
						"David Eagleman is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun." 
						- New York Times					</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>
						"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					</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>
						"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					</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>
						"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					</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>
						"What Eagleman seems to be calling for is a new Enlightenment." 
						- Sunday Herald					</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>
						"David Eagleman may be the best combination of scientist and fiction-writer alive." 
						- Stewart Brand					</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>
						"[A] neuroscientist and polymath." 
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David's research encompasses brain plasticity, sensory substitution, time perception, synesthesia, and the intersection of brain science with the legal system.

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