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

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyperreligiosity (an obsession with religion and feelings of religious certainity), hypergraphia (extensive writing on a subject, usually about religion), the false sense of an external presence, and, often, the hearing voices that are attributed to a god. Some fraction of history´s prophets, martyrs, and leaders appear to have had temporal lobe epilepsy.

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