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Among All The Creatures Of Creation, The Gods Favor Us: We Are The Only Ones Who Can Empathize With Their Problems.

If You Are A Carrier Of A Particular Set Of Genes, Your Probability Of Committing A Violent Crime Goes Up By Eight Hundred And Eighty-two Percent.

We Open Our Eyes And We Think We're Seeing The Whole World Out There. But What Has Become Clear—and Really Just In The Last Few Centuries—is That When You Look At The Electro-magnetic Spectrum We Are Seeing Less Than 1/10 Billionth Of The Information That's Riding On There. So We Call That Visible Light. But Everything Else Passing Through Our Bodies Is Completely Invisible To Us. Even Though We Accept The Reality That's Presented To Us, We're Really Only Seeing A Little Window Of What's Happening.

When One Part Of The Brain Makes A Choice, Other Parts Can Quickly Invent A Story To Explain Why. If You Show The Command "walk" To The Right Hemisphere (the One Without Language), The Patient Will Get Up And Start Walking. If You Stop Him And Ask Why He's Leaving, His Left Hemisphere, Cooking Up An Answer, Will Say Something Like "i Was Going To Get A Drink Of Water."

Neuroscience Over The Next 50 Years Is Going To Introduce Things That Are Mind-blowing.