Indeed, The Line Between Perceiving And Hallucinating

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.

Any Ape Can Reach For A Banana, But Only Humans Can Reach For The Stars.

Even Though Its Common Knowledge These Days, It Never Ceases To Amaze Me That All The Richness Of Our Mental Life - All Our Feelings, Our Emotions, Our Thoughts, Our Ambitions, Our Love Life, Our Religious Sentiments And Even What Each Of Us Regards Us His Own Intimate Private Self - Is Simply The Activity Of These Little Specks Of Jelly In Your Head, In Your Brain. There Is Nothing Else.

Think About What Artists, Novelists And Poets Have In Common: The Ability To Engage In Metaphorical Thinking, Linking Seemingly Unrelated Ideas, Such As, 'it Is The East, And Juliet Is The Sun.'

The Adage That Fact Is Stranger Than Fiction Seems To Be Especially True For The Workings Of The Brain.