The New Yorker has made

artappraiser — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:26:30 +0000

In reply to Did you read this from the

The New Yorker has made Bilger's article on Eagleman and his studies of "mysteries of the brain" available to all now, just noticed it's #3 on their most popular list:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/25/110425fa_fact_bilger

Did you read this from the

artappraiser — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:11:08 +0000

In reply to The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

Did you read this from the last New Yorker?

The Possibilian

What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain.

by Burkhard Bilger, April 25, 2011

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/25/110425fa_fact_bilger#ixzz1KYjVGMv0

(Non-subscribers note: the full article is available free on line.)

I highly recommend it. There are many related parts to it. Especially how Francis Crick influenced him, in particular this point:

Before Francis Crick died, in 2004, he gave Eagleman some advice. “Look,” he said. “The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it. The way real science goes is that you come up with lots of ideas, and most of them will be wrong.”

and how that relates to agnosticism (open minded) as opposed to rigid atheism (close minded.)

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The New Yorker has made

Did you read this from the

The Possibilian

What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain.

by Burkhard Bilger, April 25, 2011