Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

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

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.

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

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.

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.