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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.