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.

He serves on the editorial boards of the scientific journals PLoS One and Journal of Vision. Neuroscience and the Law
Neurolaw is an emerging field that determines how modern brain science should affect the way we make laws punish criminals and invent new methods for rehabilitation. By this technique he has tested and analyzed thousands of synesthetes and has written a book on synesthesia with Richard Cytowic entitled Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia.

He is a Guggenheim Fellow a council member in the World Economic Forum and a New York Times bestselling author publiDavid Eaglemand in 27 languages. David Eagleman (born April 1971) is a neuroscientist and writer at Baylor College of Medicine where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law.