Those with Anton's syndrome are not pretending they are not blind; they truly believe they are not blind. Their verbal reports, while inaccurate, are not lies. Instead, they are experiencing what they take to be vision, but it is all internally generated.

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

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

Vision is more than looking.

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.

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