There Are Always Wonderful Mysteries To Confront.

This Is The Hallmark Of A Robust Biological System: Political Parties Can Perish In A Tragic Accident And The Society Will Still Run, Sometimes With Little More Than A Hiccup To The System. It May Be That For Every Strange Clinical Case In Which Brain Damage Leads To A Bizarre Change In Behavior Or Perception, There Are Hundreds Of Cases In Which Parts Of The Brain Are Damaged With No Detectable Clinical Sign.

Knowing Yourself Now Requires The Understanding That The Conscious You Occupies Only A Small Room In The Mansion Of The Brain, And That It Has Little Control Over The Reality Constructed For You.

...you Are Battered And Bruised In The Collisions Between Reminiscence And Reality.

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.

The Left Hemisphere Acts As An "interpreter," Watching The Actions And Behaviors Of The Body And Assigning A Coherent Narrative To These Events. And The Left Hemisphere Works This Way Even In Normal, Intact Brains. Hidden Programs Drive Actions, And The Left Hemisphere Makes Justifications. This Idea Of Retrospective Storytelling Suggests That We Come To Know Our Own Attitudes And Emotions, At Least Partially, By Inferring Them From Observations Of Our Own Behavior.