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."

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

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

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

The brain runs its show incognito.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

In our current understanding of science, we can't find the physical gap in which to slip free will - the uncaused causer - because there seems to be no part of the machinery that does not follow in a causal relationship from the other parts.