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

Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.

All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

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.

Imbalance of reason and emotion may explain the tenacity of religion in societies: world religions are optimized to tap into the emotional networks, and great arguments of reason amount to little against such magnetic pull.