David Eagleman, known as the Leonardo da Vinci of the brain, as well as neuroscientist and writer, can recognize his outstanding work as an inventor, has developed devices to diagnose schizophrenia, detect brain damage and improve the quality of life of the deaf and mute, although his real interest is to decipher what we call “consciousness”.
In 2015, a new TV show presented by David, titled?The Brain? (The brain). His goal was to make accessible to the general public the most important information about the human brain, as Carl Sagan did in his day, with the already legendary series “Cosmos”.
- “There’s an incredible gap between what your brain knows and what your mind discovers it can do.
- “-David Eagleman-.
The truth is that we are increasingly interested in getting to know each other, if Sagan has fallen in love with entire generations of everything that happens beyond our blue spot in the sky, David Eagleman is also fulfilling his mission.
Neuroscience provides fascinating information about the human being, who we are and what we can become. The journey through this synaptic, deep and hyperconnected universe couldn’t be more interesting.
Critics say David Eagleman has simplified neuroscience by making it accessible to everyone, who has used his youthful image and good communication skills to position himself in the publishing and television world, that may be true, but anyone who knows his career knows who this teacher is. Names like Eagleman himself and Elon Musk now represent a dramatic leap in the world of science.
David Eagleman was just over 8 years old when he fell off a building under construction, the consequences were not serious, but he lived something that left a mark on him forever, he realized that time passed very slowly when he fell to the ground.
Why, when you’re afraid, the perception of time is slower in the brain?Why do we suffer such strange and dying torture?This doubt accompanied him for years. To date, he has published several books on the subject after conducting several experiments at NeoSensory, his laboratory in Palo Alto, California.
Since he began his studies in neurosciences he had a very clear objective: to contribute to society practical things, with useful dimensions, the idea of generating this type of knowledge and resources that are equally beneficial to all is an almost moral principle that has already evoked in his time another figure of science: Nikola Tesla.
David Eagleman is a member of the Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies and has already developed several inventions that represent a great achievement in various fields of science.
“I’m interested in the human brain, not the rat brain. Don’t they build civilizations?-David Eagleman-
In addition, there is another remarkable area in which David Eagleman is a pioneer: ethical and legal neuroscience, which to date has developed a series of guidelines based on this scientific field to generate new rehabilitation methods for criminals What is its goal?According to him, “repair, train and treat?” The human brain to stop breaking the law.
He is 47 years old and has been the Nobel Prize for almost a decade, his name is always among the favorites, his books are among the best sellers and it is the media face that fills the audience and leads to success to any TV show. He was a child prodigy, someone who by age 7 was already dazzled by his teachers, and who at 20 gave up his career as a space physicist in Houston to study neuroscience.
Now it doesn’t matter if you get that prize or not. Dr. Eagleman has long revolutionized the academy, has the public recognition, much of the scientific community and also Silicon Valley, always listening to his amazing inventions.
For him, science must fulfill one goal: to offer well-being, progress, wisdom. He does not hesitate to criticize the work of the scientific world: “All they do is waste time arguing and counter-arguing, focusing on the trivial. Do we need to broaden perspective and make everything we know so far accessible to people?
One of his most interesting books is undoubtedly “Incognito: The Secret Life of the Brain”. In this seductive book, simple, funny and extremely revealing, you put all the secrets of this organ in a lucid and coherent way. Reading this book is more than a pleasure, it is to take a trip to our regions of the brain, mind and consciousness to learn much more about ourselves.
Leonardo da Vinci’s brain has just begun its journey, and it is very likely that in the coming years it will reveal more mysteries and bring us many more advances.