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.

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

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

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.