What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.

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

If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying - it more likely signifies that they have worked hard in the past to burn the programs into the circuitry. Consciousness is called in during the first phase of learning and is excluded from the game playing after it is deep in the system.

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

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.