Odor Carries A Great Deal Of Information,

Consciousness Is The Smallest Player In The Operations Of The Brain.

The Majority Of Human Beings Live Their Whole Lives Unaware That They Are Only Seeing A Limited Cone Of Vision At Any Moment.

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.

Every Week I Get Letters From People Worldwide Who Feel That The Possibilian Point Of View Represents Their Understanding Better Than Either Religion Or Neo-atheism.

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.