David Eagleman

David Eagleman's books explore the brain, perception, hidden mental processes, adaptability, creativity, and the stories people build about consciousness. Incognito examines how much thought and action occur outside deliberate awareness. The Brain turns that inquiry toward identity and experience, while Livewired emphasizes continual change in response to the body, environment, and use.

The Runaway Species connects human creativity to the ability to bend, combine, and transform what already exists. Sum approaches related questions through brief imagined afterlives, using invention to unsettle familiar assumptions about self and meaning. Eagleman moves between explanation and speculation so that scientific ideas become prompts for reconsidering what feels fixed, private, or obvious.