Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

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

When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal signals in the body and breain are literally a love drug. And then it beginds to decline. From this perspective, we are preprogramed to lose interest in a sexual partner after the time required to raise a child has passed - which is, on average, about 4 years.

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

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