You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.

The brain internally simulates what will happen if you were to perform some action under specific conditions. Internal models not only play a role in motor acts (such as catching or dodging) but also underlie conscious perception.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the same rules that objects at larger scales follow, and that we perceive what is really out there. All of these positions were long defended by argument from parsimony, and they were all wrong.

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

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