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Who You Are Depends On The Sum Total Of Your Neurobiology.

Once You Begin Deliberating About Where Your Fingers Are Jumping On The Piano Keyboard, You Can No Longer Pull Off The Piece.

If An Epileptic Seizure Is Focused In A Particular Sweet Spot In The Temporal Lobe, A Person Won´t Have Motor Seizures, But Instead Something More Subtle. The Effect Is Something Like A Cognitive Seizure, Marked By Changes Of Personality, Hyperreligiosity (an Obsession With Religion And Feelings Of Religious Certainity), Hypergraphia (extensive Writing On A Subject, Usually About Religion), The False Sense Of An External Presence, And, Often, The Hearing Voices That Are Attributed To A God. Some Fraction Of History´s Prophets, Martyrs, And Leaders Appear To Have Had Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.

I Spent My Adult Life As A Scientist, And Science Is, Essentially, The Most Successful Approach We Have To Try And Understand The Vast Mysteries Around.

Behavior Is The Outcome Of The Battle Among Internal Systems.