If Our Brains Were Simple Enough To

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 Balance Of The Emotional And Rational Systems Is Needed, And That Balance May Already Be Optimized By Natural Selection In Human Brains.

We Are Nothing But The Product Of Billions Of Years Of Molecules Coming Together And Ratcheting Up Through Natural Selection, We Are Composed Only Of Highways Of Fluids And Chemicals Sliding Along Roadways Within Billions Of Dancing Cells, Trillions Of Synaptic Conversations Hum In Parallel, This Vast Egglike Fabric Of Micron-thin Circuitry Runs Algorithms Undreamt Of In Modern Science, And These Neural Programs Give Rise To Our Decision Making, Loves, Desires, Fears, And Aspirations. That Understanding Would Be A Numinous Experience, Better Than Anything Ever Proposed In Anyone's Holy Text.

I'm Using The Afterlife As A Backdrop Against Which To Explore The Joys And Complexities Of Being Human - It Turns Out That It's A Great Lens With Which To Understand What Matters To Us.

What A Life In Science Really Teaches You Is The Vastness Of Our Ignorance.

If You Measure Someone's Brain And See Very Little Activity During A Task, It Does Not Necessarily Indicate That They're Not Trying - It More Likely Signifies That They Have Worked Hard In The Past To Burn The Programs Into The Circuitry. Consciousness Is Called In During The First Phase Of Learning And Is Excluded From The Game Playing After It Is Deep In The System.