Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.

All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.

All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the "benevolent" end of the furious living and furious dying.

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.

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