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.

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

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

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

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

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.

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.