Without Ducking Responsibility, What's Wrong With Medicine

In The Fetus, Or A Really Young Child, All The Different Brain Areas Are Connected To Each Other, Diffusely. And As The Brain Develops, The Excess Connections Are Turned Off, So You Get Very Specialized Areas. So Most People Have Really Specialized Talents. What Happens In Creative People Is This Pooling Doesn't Take Place.

What The Artist Tries To Do (either Consciously Or Unconsciously) Is To Not Only Capture The Essence Of Something But Also To Amplify It In Order To More Powerfully Activate The Same Neural Mechanisms That Would Be Activated By The Original Object.

Remember That Politics, Colonialism, Imperialism And War Also Originate In The Human Brain.

Without Ducking Responsibility, What's Wrong With Medicine Today Is That It Is Predicated On Providing Treatment, Not On Reducing Suffering. Not On Solving Problems.

Here Is A Neuron That Fires When I Reach And Grab Something, But It Also Fires When I Watch Joe Reaching And Grabbing Something. ... It's As Though This Neuron Is Adopting The Other Person's Point Of View.