We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.

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.

When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.