Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.

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

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

To a space alien or a German Shepherd dog, two humans would be indistinguishable, just as attractive and unattractive space aliens and German Shepherd dogs are difficult for you to tell apart.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.