A Mere 400 Years After Our Fall

It Is The Most Wondrous Thing We Have Discovered In The Universe, And It Is Us.

Societies Would _not_ Be Better Off If Everyone Were Like Mr Spock, All Rationality And No Emotion. Instead, A Balance - A Teaming Up Of The Internal Rivals - Is Optimal For Brains. ... Some Balance Of The Emotional And Rational Systems Is Needed, And That Balance May Already Be Optimized By Natural Selection In Human Brains.

Nothing Is Inherently Tasty Or Repulsive - It Depends On Your Needs. Deliciousness Is Simply An Index Of Usefulness.

Each Cell Sends Electrical Pulses To Other Cells, Up To Hundreds Of Times Per Second. If You Represented Each Of These Trillions And Trillions Of Pulses In Your Brain By A Single Photon Of Light, The Combined Output Would Be Blinding.

Instead Of Reality Being Passively Recorded By The Brain, It Is Actively Constructed By It.