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The Missing Crowds Make You Lonely. You Begin To Complain About All The People You Could Be Meeting. But No One Listens Or Sympathizes With You, Because This Is Precisely What You Chose When You Were Alive.

The Brain Internally Simulates What Will Happen If You Were To Perform Some Action Under Specific Conditions. Internal Models Not Only Play A Role In Motor Acts (such As Catching Or Dodging) But Also Underlie Conscious Perception.

In The Traditionally Taught View Of Perception, Data From The Sensorium Pours Into The Brain, Works Its Way Up The Sensory Hierarchy, And Makes Itself Seen, Heard, Smelled, Tasted, Felt - "perceived." But A Closer Examination Of The Data Suggests This Is Incorrect. The Brain Is Properly Thought Of As A Mostly Closed System That Runs On Its Own Internally Generated Activity.

Imbalance Of Reason And Emotion May Explain The Tenacity Of Religion In Societies: World Religions Are Optimized To Tap Into The Emotional Networks, And Great Arguments Of Reason Amount To Little Against Such Magnetic Pull.

The Three-pound Organ In Your Skull - With Its Pink Consistency Of Jell-o - Is An Alien Kind Of Computational Material. It Is Composed Of Miniaturized, Self-configuring Parts, And It Vastly Outstrips Anything We've Dreamt Of Building.