Imbalance Of Reason And Emotion May Explain

A Typical Neuron Makes About Ten Thousand Connections To Neighboring Neurons. Given The Billions Of Neurons, This Means There Are As Many Connections In A Single Cubic Centimeter Of Brain Tissue As There Are Stars In The Milky Way Galaxy.

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.

As Carl Jung Put It, "in Each Of Us There Is Another Whom We Do Not Know." As Pink Floyd Sang, "there's Someone In My Head, But It's Not Me."

Those With Anton's Syndrome Are Not Pretending They Are Not Blind; They Truly Believe They Are Not Blind. Their Verbal Reports, While Inaccurate, Are Not Lies. Instead, They Are Experiencing What They Take To Be Vision, But It Is All Internally Generated.

The Main Thing Known About Secrets Is That Keeping Them Is Unhealthy For The Brain.