What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

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.

Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

Even while it's true that we are tied to our molecules and proteins and neurons - as strokes and hormones and drugs and microorganisms indisputably tell us - it does not logically follow that humans are best described only as pieces and parts.

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.