There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.

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

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

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.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

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.

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.