Just Give The Brain The Information And

This Is The Hallmark Of A Robust Biological System: Political Parties Can Perish In A Tragic Accident And The Society Will Still Run, Sometimes With Little More Than A Hiccup To The System. It May Be That For Every Strange Clinical Case In Which Brain Damage Leads To A Bizarre Change In Behavior Or Perception, There Are Hundreds Of Cases In Which Parts Of The Brain Are Damaged With No Detectable Clinical Sign.

I Know One Lab That Studies Nicotine Receptors And All The Scientists Are Smokers, And Another Lab That Studies Impulse Control And They're All Overweight.

I Always Bounce My Legs When I'm Sitting.

The Brain "fills In" The Missing Information From The Blind Spot. Notice What You See In The Location Of The Dot When It's In Your Blind Spot. When The Dot Disappears, You Do Not Perceive A Hole Of Whiteness Or Blackness In Its Place; Instead Your Brain Invents A Patch Of The Background Pattern. Your Brain, With No Information From That Particular Spot In Visual Space, Fills In With The Patterns Around It. You're Not Perceiving What's Out There. You're Perceiving Whatever Your Brain Tells You.

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