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David Eagleman Books
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 34,235 ratings — published 2011
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 22,463 ratings — published 2015
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 23,135 ratings — published 2009
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 95,462 ratings — published 1972
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 5,108 ratings — published 2014
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,333 ratings — published 2017
Summary & Study Guide Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 35 ratings — published 2011
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,937,019 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 157,261 ratings — published 1980
Last and First Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 6,849 ratings — published 1930
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 211,300 ratings — published 2000
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 4,973 ratings — published 1976
The Road (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,018,305 ratings — published 2006
The Arrival (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 59,499 ratings — published 2007
The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 4,671 ratings — published 2011
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 33,551 ratings — published 1962
“So why does the world appear stable to you when you’re looking at it? Why doesn’t it appear as jerky and nauseating as the poorly filmed video? Here’s why: your internal model operates under the assumption that the world outside is stable. Your eyes are not like video cameras – they simply venture out to find more details to feed into the internal model. They’re not like camera lenses that you’re seeing through; they’re gathering bits of data to feed the world inside your skull." The Brain: The Story of You - David Eagleman”
― The Brain: The Story of You
― The Brain: The Story of You
“One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said--why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.”
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