There Are Always Wonderful Mysteries To Confront.

Keep In Mind That Every Single Generation Before Us Has Worked Under The Assumption That They Possessed All The Major Tools For Understanding The Universe, And They Were All Wrong, Without Exception.

Humans Have Discovered That They Cannot Stop Death, But At Least They Can Spit In His Drink.

One Of The Most Pervasive Mistakes Is To Believe That Our Visual System Gives A Faithful Representation Of What Is "out There" In The Same Way That A Movie Camera Would.

If You Measure Someone's Brain And See Very Little Activity During A Task, It Does Not Necessarily Indicate That They're Not Trying - It More Likely Signifies That They Have Worked Hard In The Past To Burn The Programs Into The Circuitry. Consciousness Is Called In During The First Phase Of Learning And Is Excluded From The Game Playing After It Is Deep In The System.

The Left Hemisphere Acts As An "interpreter," Watching The Actions And Behaviors Of The Body And Assigning A Coherent Narrative To These Events. And The Left Hemisphere Works This Way Even In Normal, Intact Brains. Hidden Programs Drive Actions, And The Left Hemisphere Makes Justifications. This Idea Of Retrospective Storytelling Suggests That We Come To Know Our Own Attitudes And Emotions, At Least Partially, By Inferring Them From Observations Of Our Own Behavior.