It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, your neural circuitry has been working on it for hours or days or years, consolidating information and trying out new combinations. But you take credit without further wonderment at the vast, hidden machinery behind the scenes.

At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.

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

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.