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.

Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

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

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

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

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