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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

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.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

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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 ...more

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Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection...more

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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

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All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

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Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done so. In point of fact, He unintentionally knocked ov...more