The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.

Those with Anton's syndrome are not pretending they are not blind; they truly believe they are not blind. Their verbal reports, while inaccurate, are not lies. Instead, they are experiencing what they take to be vision, but it is all internally generated.

Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.

We spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely large scales of galaxies.

Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.

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

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