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

It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.

Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.