Behavior Is The Outcome Of The Battle

We're Trapped On This Very Thin Slice Of Perception ... But Even At That Slice Of Reality That We Call Home, We're Not Seeing Most Of What's Going On.

What Has Always Surprised Me When I Walk Into A Bookstore Is The Number Of Books That You Can Find That Are Written With Certainty. The Authors Tell Some Story As Though It's True, But They Don't Have Any Evidence That It Is True!

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

Some Men May Be Genetically Inclined To Have And Hold A Single Partner, While Some May Not. In The Near Future, Young Women Who Stay Current With The Scientific Literature May Demand Genetic Tests Of Their Boyfriends To Assess How Likely They Are To Make Faithful Husbands.

We Are Made Up Of An Entire Parliament Of Pieces And Parts And Subsystems. Beyond A Collection Of Local Expert Systems, We Are Collections Of Overlapping, Ceaselessly Reinvented Mechanism, A Group Of Competing Factions. The Conscious Mind Fabricates Stories To Explain The Sometimes Inexplicable Dynamics Of The Subsystem Inside Brain. It Can Be Disquieting To Consider The Extent To Which All Of Our Actions Are Driven By Hardwired Systems Doing What They Do Best While We Overlay Stories About Choices.