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

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

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.

All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.

The brain runs its show incognito.

Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still run, sometimes with little more than a hiccup to the system. It may be that for every strange clinical case in which brain damage leads to a bizarre change in behavior or perception, there are hundreds of cases in which parts of the brain are damaged with no detectable clinical sign.