Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

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

You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.

Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.