Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.

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

Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us. Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.

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.

As Carl Jung put it, "In each of us there is another whom we do not know." As Pink Floyd sang, "There's someone in my head, but it's not me."