The First Lesson About Trusting Your Senses

You Are More Likely To Believe That A Statement Is True If You Have Heard It Before - Whether Or Not It Is Actually True.

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.

I Call Myself A Possibilian: I'm Open To...ideas That We Don't Have Any Way Of Testing Right Now.

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

Given The Billions Of Neurons, This Means There Are As Many Connections In A Single Cubic Centimeter Of Brain Tissue As There Are Stars In The Milky Way Galaxy.