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

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

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.

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

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.