Every Week I Get Letters From People

My Lab And Academic Work Fill My Day From About 9 Am To 7 P.m. Then I Zoom Out The Lens To Work On My Other Writing.

This Is What Consciousness Does: It Sets The Goals, And The Rest Of The System Learns How To Meet Them.

It Turns Out Your Conscious Mind - The Part You Think Of As You - Is Really The Smallest Part Of What’s Happening In Your Brain, And Usually The Last One In Line To Find Out Any Information.

As An Undergraduate I Majored In British And American Literature At Rice University.

We Are Nothing But The Product Of Billions Of Years Of Molecules Coming Together And Ratcheting Up Through Natural Selection, We Are Composed Only Of Highways Of Fluids And Chemicals Sliding Along Roadways Within Billions Of Dancing Cells, Trillions Of Synaptic Conversations Hum In Parallel, This Vast Egglike Fabric Of Micron-thin Circuitry Runs Algorithms Undreamt Of In Modern Science, And These Neural Programs Give Rise To Our Decision Making, Loves, Desires, Fears, And Aspirations. That Understanding Would Be A Numinous Experience, Better Than Anything Ever Proposed In Anyone's Holy Text.