Among All The Creatures Of Creation, The

Many People Prefer A View Of Human Nature That Includes A True Side And A False Side - In Other Words, Humans Have A Single Genuine Aim And The Rest Is Decoration, Evasion, Or Cover-up. That's Intuitive, But It's Incomplete. A Study Of The Brain Necessitates A More Nuanced View Of Human Nature.

We Are Not The Ones Driving The Boat Of Our Behavior, At Least Not Nearly As Much As We Believe.

You´re Not Perceiving What's Out There. You're Perceiving Whatever Your Brain Tells You.

You Are More Likely To Believe That A Statement Is True If You Have Heard It Before - Whether Or Not It Is Actually True.

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.