Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.

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.