A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

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.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.