The Continuous Networks Of Neural Circuitry Accomplish

We Spend Our Lives On A Thin Slice Between The Unimaginably Small Scales Of The Atoms That Compose Us And The Infinitely Large Scales Of Galaxies.

If Our Brains Were Simple Enough To Be Understood, We Wouldn't Be Smart Enough To Understand Them.

Reductionism Is Not The Right Viewpoint For Everything, And It Certainly Won't Explain The Relationship Between The Brain And The Mind. This Is Because Of A Feature Known As Emergence. When You Put Together Large Numbers Of Pieces And Parts, The Whole Can Become Something Greater Than The Sum.

The First Thing We Learn From Studying Our Own Circuitry Is A Simple Lesson: Most Of What We Do And Think And Feel Is Not Under Our Conscious Control.

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.