What We Find Is That Our Brains

The Drives You Take For Granted ("i'm A Hetero/homosexual," "i'm Attracted To Children/adults," "i'm Aggressive/not Aggressive," And So On) Depend On The Intricate Details Of Your Neural Machinery.

Visual Cortex Is Fundamentally A Machine Whose Job Is To Generate A Model Of The World.

Our Ignorance Of The Cosmos Is Too Vast To Commit To Atheism, And Yet We Know Too Much To Commit To A Particular Religion. A Third Position, Agnosticism, Is Often An Uninteresting Stance In Which A Person Simply Questions Whether His Traditional Religious Story (say, A Man With A Beard On A Cloud) Is True Or Not True. But With Possibilianism I’m Hoping To Define A New Position - One That Emphasizes The Exploration Of New, Unconsidered Possibilities. Possibilianism Is Comfortable Holding Multiple Ideas In Mind; It Is Not Interested In Committing To Any Particular Story.

Everything That Creates Itself Upon The Backs Of Smaller Scales Will By Those Same Scales Be Consumed.

Awareness Of Your Surroundings Occurs Only When Sensory Inputs Violate Expectations. When The World Is Successfully Predicted Away, Awareness Is Not Needed Because The Brain Is Doing Its Job Well.