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

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

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

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!

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.

Vision is more than looking.