The Brain Runs Its Show Incognito.

I Always Bounce My Legs When I'm Sitting.

As We Develop Better Technologies For Probing The Brain, We Detect More Problems.

A Mere 400 Years After Our Fall From The Center Of The Universe, We Have Experienced The Fall From The Center Of Ourselves.

One Of The Most Pervasive Mistakes Is To Believe That Our Visual System Gives A Faithful Representation Of What Is "out There" In The Same Way That A Movie Camera Would.

When One Part Of The Brain Makes A Choice, Other Parts Can Quickly Invent A Story To Explain Why. If You Show The Command "walk" To The Right Hemisphere (the One Without Language), The Patient Will Get Up And Start Walking. If You Stop Him And Ask Why He's Leaving, His Left Hemisphere, Cooking Up An Answer, Will Say Something Like "i Was Going To Get A Drink Of Water."