“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“We have a brain for one reason and one reason only — and that’s to produce adaptable and complex movements.”
— Daniel Wolpert
Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
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“I am a movement chauvinist.”
— Daniel Wolpert
Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
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“There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn’t affect the way you’re going to move later in life.”
— Daniel Wolpert
Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
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“You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that’s completely wrong.”
— Daniel Wolpert
Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
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