Visual Cortex Is Fundamentally A Machine Whose

A Typical Neuron Makes About Ten Thousand Connections To Neighboring Neurons. 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.

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.

The First Lesson About Trusting Your Senses Is: Don't. Just Because You Believe Something To Be True, Just Because You Know It's True, That Doesn't Mean It Is True.

Even While It's True That We Are Tied To Our Molecules And Proteins And Neurons - As Strokes And Hormones And Drugs And Microorganisms Indisputably Tell Us - It Does Not Logically Follow That Humans Are Best Described Only As Pieces And Parts.

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