David Eagleman

Because even just saying it out loud, you have to sort of make things make sense.

But truthfully, it's just random activity.

And it's kind of like a Rorschach blot.

If you just look at some random blob of ink,

Can you see things that you think are relevant to your life?

And you say, oh yeah, that looks like, you know, this is sort of a blob that's telling me that I should go change careers and whatever.

We can do that with our dreams as well.

It's just random activity.

And you can say, yeah, that really thought of something here, whatever.

But yes, it's all random activity.

And what we do is we impose meaning on it.

Some of us do.

Yeah.

My general feeling on it is the world is full of mystery.

The amount of stuff we know in science and have written down in big fat textbooks is a tiny fraction of what's going on out there.

Actually, I wrote an article in Discover Magazine back in 2004 called 10 Unsolved Mysteries of Neuroscience, and they're still unsolved.

I mean, we are in deep mysteries all around us.

And yeah, take consciousness.

I mean, consciousness, somehow you put together all this physical stuff of the brain and you experience qualia, as we talked about, you know, you experience pain and the beauty of a sunset and the taste of cinnamon and, you know, the smell of lemon pie and all these things that we experience, but we have no idea how to build pieces and parts.

We can't build