We Believe We're Seeing The World Just

Everybody Knows The Power Of Deadlines - And We All Hate Them. But Their Effectiveness Is Undeniable.

It Is More Parsimonious To Assume That The Sun Goes Around The Earth, That Atoms At The Smallest Scale Operate In Accordance With The Same Rules That Objects At Larger Scales Follow, And That We Perceive What Is Really Out There. All Of These Positions Were Long Defended By Argument From Parsimony, And They Were All Wrong.

Brains Are Like Representative Democracies. They Are Built Of Multiple, Overlapping Experts Who Weigh In And Compete Over Different Choices.

A Typical Neuron Makes About Ten Thousand Connections To Neighboring Neurons. Given The Billions Of Neurons, This Means There Are As Many Connections In A Single Cubic Centimeter Of Brain Tissue As There Are Stars In The Milky Way Galaxy.

After All, Across The Population There Are Slight Differences In Brain Function, And Sometimes These Translate Directly Into Different Ways Of Experiencing The World. And Each Individual Believes His Way Is Reality.