This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still run, sometimes with little more than a hiccup to the system. It may be that for every strange clinical case in which brain damage leads to a bizarre change in behavior or perception, there are hundreds of cases in which parts of the brain are damaged with no detectable clinical sign.

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.