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

A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

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.

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

Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

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

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.