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

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control..

As Carl Jung put it, "In each of us there is another whom we do not know." As Pink Floyd sang, "There's someone in my head, but it's not me.".

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows..

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections….

When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show the command "Walk" to the right hemisph….

Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest ….

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, agnostic….

The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when it's in your blind spot. When t….

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time..

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true..

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last….

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies..

Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonish….

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time..

We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that whe….

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity..

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 m….

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be..

The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, beca….

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe..