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.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.

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

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!