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

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

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

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