![]() ![]() In the other: you think your brain and senses reveal the world as it is? He will show you the tricks they play on us. In one, he delineates, with remorseless logic and clarity, what any conceivable afterlife would actually entail. ![]() If salvation is his goal, his method in both Sum and his new book, Incognito, is to ask us to cast off our lazy, commonplace assumptions. Finally, in his professional and academic capacity as a research neuroscientist, he believes that the new knowledge of the brain can help solve one of our most intractable problems: how to turn bad people into good – how to rehabilitate criminals. His exclusive iPad app, Why the Net Matters, is concerned with saving us from the kind of Jared Diamond-style collapse that has befallen every previous civilisation (the net is a worldwide alerting system, a mass data collector, a hedge against the loss of knowledge in an Alexandrian library-type disaster, and a subverter of tyranny). Sum, his bestselling collection of short fables ("You will not read a more dazzling book this year" tweeted Stephen Fry) asked us, in the most rigorous and stark manner, to be careful what we wish for in the afterlife. D avid Eagleman is much possessed by ideas of salvation. ![]()
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