To A Space Alien Or A German

You´re Not Perceiving What's Out There. You're Perceiving Whatever Your Brain Tells You.

Even Though The Outside World Has Not Changed, Your Brain Dynamically Presents Different Interpretations.

Societies Would _not_ Be Better Off If Everyone Were Like Mr Spock, All Rationality And No Emotion. Instead, A Balance - A Teaming Up Of The Internal Rivals - Is Optimal For Brains. ... Some Balance Of The Emotional And Rational Systems Is Needed, And That Balance May Already Be Optimized By Natural Selection In Human Brains.

We Believe We're Seeing The World Just Fine Until It's Called To Our Attention That We're Not.

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.