If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.

If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.

As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

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

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