Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.

To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.