We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.

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

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more interesting discussion. If history is any guide, it's never a good idea to assume that a scientific problem is cornered.

All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the "benevolent" end of the furious living and furious dying.