If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

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."

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

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

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.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.