Edward Boyden Quotes
These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.
If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired out from answering questions and can't resist.
It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.
The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.
A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.
A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.
I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.
We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.
One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?
It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.
Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.
Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.
Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.
