David Eagleman Says We Have Very Little Conscious Control to the Machinery of Our Brain

Posted on June 14, 2011

Neuroscientist David Eagleman - author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - says we have very little conscious access to the machinery of our brain. He says this is probably a good thing. Eagleman says even very skilled Buddhist monks can control little beyond their breathing, heart rate and blood flow.

He compares our inability to access the inner workings of our brain to not having security access to the boot sector of your computer. We would probably accidentally turn ourselves off or screw up important bodily functions if we could access our most crucial and hardwired brain functions. Take a look:

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