...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the "benevolent" end of the furious living and furious dying.

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

As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.

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