Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

As Gazzaniga put it, “these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and reasons, even...

Death… The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels. After some questioning, you find out that God’s...

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance – a teaming up of the internal rivals – is optimal for brains. … Some...

Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways of fluids and...

That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had suffered, both sides had legitimate grievances, both pled their cases earnestly. She covered Her ears and moaned in...

We open our eyes and we think we’re seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we...

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don’t stop.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked...

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

You´re not perceiving what’s out there. You’re perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

– because if you weren´t exposed to in utero cocaine, lead poisoning, or physical abuse, and he was, then you and he are not directly comparable.

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your...

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference...

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.