美國神經科學家，作家和科學傳播者。他在史丹佛大學（Stanford University）教授神經科學，是Neosensory的CEO兼共同創始人，該公司開髮用於感覺替代的設備。

“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”

“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, that trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, that this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and that these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. To me, that understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.”

“Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.”

“It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.”

“Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.”

“There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.”

“We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.”

“You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.”

“Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.”

“You don’t perceive objects as they are. You perceive them as you are. Each”

“The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.”

“A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.”

“Vision is more than looking.”

“Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.”

“So the first lesson about trusting your senses is: don’t. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it’s true, that doesn’t mean it is true.”