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."

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

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.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.

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.