Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

The brain runs its show incognito.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

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.

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

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

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.