There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.

The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference between being awake and being asleep is merely that the data coming in from the eyes anchors the perception.

All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

Vision is more than looking.

Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.