Vision Is More Than Looking.

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.

As Walt Whitman Correctly Surmised, We Are Large And We Harbor Multitudes Within Us. And Those Multitudes Are Locked In Chronic Battle. There Is An Ongoing Conversation Among The Different Factions In Your Brain, Each Competing To Control The Single Output Channel Of Your Behavior. As A Result, You Can Accomplish The Strange Feats Of Arguing With Yourself, Cursing At Yourself, And Cajoling Yourself To Do Something - Feats That Modern Computers Simply Do Not Do.

One Of The Most Impressive Features Of Brains - And Especially Human Brains - Is The Flexibility To Learn Almost Any Kind Of Task That Comes Its Way.

There Are Three Deaths. The First Is When The Body Ceases To Function. The Second Is When The Body Is Consigned To The Grave. The Third Is That Moment, Sometime In The Future, When Your Name Is Spoken For The Last Time.

Scientists Often Talk Of Parsimony (as In "the Simplest Explanation Is Probably Correct," Also Known As Occam's Razor), But We Should Not Get Seduced By The Apparent Elegance Of Argument From Parsimony; This Line Of Reasoning Has Failed In The Past At Least As Many Times As It Has Succeeded.