![]() ![]() As an academic researcher, Eagleman has studied time perception, synesthesia, sensory input, and decision-making. That kind of back-and-forth has been central to the career of David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at the Baylor College of Medicine. More, perhaps, than participants in any other scientific field, neuroscientists can oscillate between the hard data of the physical world and the loftier questions of self and soul. One upshot of this reflexivity is a funny kind of loop: studying the brain tells you about being a self being a self offers up questions about the brain. When you get down to it, neuroscience is just brains studying brains. ![]()
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