![]() “We have a thousand things that are in the way of knowing ourselves. “There’s this Greek admonition to ‘know thyself,’ but that’s actually really hard to do,” Eagleman told Science of Us. For Eagleman, you can’t begin to understand yourself or your world without understanding the “cantaloupe-sized hunk of alien computational material” that lives inside your skull. The show and its companion book by Eagleman, “The Brain: The Story of You,” are testaments to the neuroscientist’s fervent belief in the relevance of his field to ordinary people. And so for several days this past year, he took off his proverbial lab coat and donned some makeup to star in his self-written mini-series “ The Brain With David Eagleman ,” which premieres tonight on PBS. But Eagleman has never been content writing for the 17 people who read The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience cover-to-cover. The Baylor College of Medicine neuroscientist has built a successful career out of studying how we perceive the world, earning himself a personal lab and over 100 publications in academic journals. David Eagleman wants to make you more conscious. ![]()
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