A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.