關於大腦，意識心與日常生活，聳動的題目說，在日常生活裡，我們不是一直有意識的做出選擇，很多時候倒像是行屍走肉的殭屍，我們卻沒有察覺。
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死後四十種生活(SUM: Forty Tales from the Afterlives)
作者：大衛．伊葛門, David Eagleman
出版：小異出版, 2009年09月25日
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Bloomberg的作者訪談
(www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-05/zombies-in-your-head-not-mind-control-daily-life-interview.html)
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Zombies in Your Head, Not Conscious Mind, Control Daily Life: Interview
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- You may feel in control, but you're actually driven by neural "zombie systems" you'll never even be aware of.
- David Eagleman's "Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain," strips away the primacy of our conscious mind, exploring the underlying forces actually determining our choices.
- Directing the Laboratory for Perception and Action at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Eagleman studies time, synesthesia(共感) and neurolaw.
- "Sum," his book of short stories about various afterlives, is an international best-seller, translated into 23 languages.
- Even though we feel like we're the ones navigating our lives, there is quite a bit about our desires, our motivations, our attractions, our hopes and our beliefs that is generated by parts of our brain that we don't have access to and we're not even acquainted with.The brain is essentially this massive computational device that runs all of its operations under the hood.
- What I conclude is that we might have free will but it's probably going to be a bit player in the operations of the brain. Consciousness does seem to be useful for setting the long-term goals of the system exactly the same way that a CEO does.
- The brain is this alien kind of computational device that can wrap itself around whatever inputs it has.You should be able to plug anything, any data cables, into the brain and it will learn how to interpret those and it will actually have perception.
- Your brain operates as a team of rivals. You are made up of all these competing neural networks that we can image now, these networks that are all battling it out under the hood.
- I'm studying time perception, and what's surprising is that it's so fluid and that we're not just passively tracking this river of time. It's that we're actively constructing it with our brains.
