The Brain Abhors Discrepancies.

The Brain Abhors Discrepancies.

If We Knew About The Real Facts And Statistics Of Mortality, We’d Be Terrified.

Our Ability To Perceive The World Around Us Seems So Effortless That We Tend To Take It For Granted.

In The Fetus, Or A Really Young Child, All The Different Brain Areas Are Connected To Each Other, Diffusely. And As The Brain Develops, The Excess Connections Are Turned Off, So You Get Very Specialized Areas. So Most People Have Really Specialized Talents. What Happens In Creative People Is This Pooling Doesn't Take Place.

Here Is This Three-pound Mass Of Jelly You Can Hold In The Palm Of Your Hand, And It Can Contemplate The Vastness Of Interstellar Space. It Can Contemplate The Meaning Of Infinity And It Can Contemplate Itself Contemplating On The Meaning Of Infinity.