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My Lab And Academic Work Fill My Day From About 9 Am To 7 P.m. Then I Zoom Out The Lens To Work On My Other Writing.

We're Trapped On This Very Thin Slice Of Perception ... But Even At That Slice Of Reality That We Call Home, We're Not Seeing Most Of What's Going On.

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.

The Left Hemisphere Acts As An "interpreter," Watching The Actions And Behaviors Of The Body And Assigning A Coherent Narrative To These Events. And The Left Hemisphere Works This Way Even In Normal, Intact Brains. Hidden Programs Drive Actions, And The Left Hemisphere Makes Justifications. This Idea Of Retrospective Storytelling Suggests That We Come To Know Our Own Attitudes And Emotions, At Least Partially, By Inferring Them From Observations Of Our Own Behavior.

It Is Only Through Us That God Lives. When We Abandon Him, He Dies.