It Is Only Through Us That God

The Missing Crowds Make You Lonely. You Begin To Complain About All The People You Could Be Meeting. But No One Listens Or Sympathizes With You, Because This Is Precisely What You Chose When You Were Alive.

Brains Are Like Representative Democracies. They Are Built Of Multiple, Overlapping Experts Who Weigh In And Compete Over Different Choices.

The Majority Of Human Beings Live Their Whole Lives Unaware That They Are Only Seeing A Limited Cone Of Vision At Any Moment.

Imbalance Of Reason And Emotion May Explain The Tenacity Of Religion In Societies: World Religions Are Optimized To Tap Into The Emotional Networks, And Great Arguments Of Reason Amount To Little Against Such Magnetic Pull.

In The Traditionally Taught View Of Perception, Data From The Sensorium Pours Into The Brain, Works Its Way Up The Sensory Hierarchy, And Makes Itself Seen, Heard, Smelled, Tasted, Felt - "perceived." But A Closer Examination Of The Data Suggests This Is Incorrect. The Brain Is Properly Thought Of As A Mostly Closed System That Runs On Its Own Internally Generated Activity.