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

I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

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.

In the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy, and makes itself seen, heard, smelled, tasted, felt - "perceived." But a closer examination of the data suggests this is incorrect. The brain is properly thought of as a mostly closed system that runs on its own internally generated activity.

Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.

Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.