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

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

Those with Anton's syndrome are not pretending they are not blind; they truly believe they are not blind. Their verbal reports, while inaccurate, are not lies. Instead, they are experiencing what they take to be vision, but it is all internally generated.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.