The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

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The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.