The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.