Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions of pulses in your brain by a single photon of light, the combined output would be blinding.

Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions of pulses in your brain by a single photon of light, the combined output would be blinding.

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

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

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

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