What did David Eagleman mean by: Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world. - David Eagleman Neuroscientist Copy
+ Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Eagleman, Fishes, Vision, Water, 0 - David Eagleman Neuroscientist
+ If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn’t be smart enough to understand them. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Eagleman, Brain, Simple, 0 - David Eagleman Neuroscientist
+ Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Eagleman, Drink, Human, 0 - David Eagleman Neuroscientist
+ If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Eagleman, Dull, Heart, Lazy, 0 - David Eagleman Neuroscientist
+ We believe we’re seeing the world just fine until it’s called to our attention that we’re not. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Eagleman, Attention, Believe, 0 - David Eagleman Neuroscientist
+ Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict. Feraz Zeid, August 30, 2023December 24, 2023, David Eagleman, Brain, Drama, Running, 0 - David Eagleman Neuroscientist
+ Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Eagleman, Battle, Behavior, Outcomes, 0 - David Eagleman Neuroscientist
+ Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don’t stop. Feraz Zeid, October 17, 2023December 26, 2023, David Eagleman, Evolve, Solutions, 0 - David Eagleman Neuroscientist
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you’ve got something. - Jeff Beck
I don’t speak … I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. - Frank Herbert Author · USA
After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us. - Friedrich Kittler Media theorist · Germany
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
