What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

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.

One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.