Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!.

I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. Bu….

The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cell….

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now..

If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great de….

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it..

Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conce….

You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we f….

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?.

One thing that I've been doing for a long time is to wake up really early. I try to get up around 4 or 5 in the morning, long before most of my lab m….

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually..

If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired….

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are..

The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny..

It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is..

Work backward from your goal..

When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation….

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of….

I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and we see ho….

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less som….

Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in ou….