The Brain Runs Its Show Incognito.

When People Fall In Love, There´s Period Of Up To Three Years During Which The Zeal And Infatuation Ride At A Peak. The Internal Signals In The Body And Breain Are Literally A Love Drug. And Then It Beginds To Decline. From This Perspective, We Are Preprogramed To Lose Interest In A Sexual Partner After The Time Required To Raise A Child Has Passed - Which Is, On Average, About 4 Years.

The Conscious Mind Is Not At The Center Of The Action In The Brain; Instead, It Is Far Out On A Distant Edge, Hearing But Whispers Of The Activity.

Consciousness Is The Smallest Player In The Operations Of The Brain.

The Three-pound Organ In Your Skull - With Its Pink Consistency Of Jell-o - Is An Alien Kind Of Computational Material. It Is Composed Of Miniaturized, Self-configuring Parts, And It Vastly Outstrips Anything We've Dreamt Of Building.

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.