The Brain Runs Its Show Incognito.

To A Space Alien Or A German Shepherd Dog, Two Humans Would Be Indistinguishable, Just As Attractive And Unattractive Space Aliens And German Shepherd Dogs Are Difficult For You To Tell Apart.

Even While It's True That We Are Tied To Our Molecules And Proteins And Neurons - As Strokes And Hormones And Drugs And Microorganisms Indisputably Tell Us - It Does Not Logically Follow That Humans Are Best Described Only As Pieces And Parts.

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.

Love Was Not Specified In The Design Of Your Brain; It Is Merely An Endearing Algorithm That Freeloads On The Leftover Processing Cycles.

Constant Reminding Ourselves That We Not See With Our Eyes But With Our Synergetic Eye-brain System Working As A Whole Will Produce Constant Astonishment As We Notice, More And More Often, How Much Of Our Perceptions Emerge From Our Preconceptions.