You Are Part Of A Complex Social

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 When You Look At The Electro-magnetic Spectrum We Are Seeing Less Than 1/10 Billionth Of The Information That's Riding On There. So We Call That Visible Light. But Everything Else Passing Through Our Bodies Is Completely Invisible To Us. Even Though We Accept The Reality That's Presented To Us, We're Really Only Seeing A Little Window Of What's Happening.

We Are Nothing But The Product Of Billions Of Years Of Molecules Coming Together And Ratcheting Up Through Natural Selection, We Are Composed Only Of Highways Of Fluids And Chemicals Sliding Along Roadways Within Billions Of Dancing Cells, Trillions Of Synaptic Conversations Hum In Parallel, This Vast Egglike Fabric Of Micron-thin Circuitry Runs Algorithms Undreamt Of In Modern Science, And These Neural Programs Give Rise To Our Decision Making, Loves, Desires, Fears, And Aspirations. That Understanding Would Be A Numinous Experience, Better Than Anything Ever Proposed In Anyone's Holy Text.

The Deep Secret Of The Brain Is That Not Only The Spinal Cord But The Entire Central Nervous System Works This Way: Internally Generated Activity Is Modulated By Sensory Input. In This View, The Difference Between Being Awake And Being Asleep Is Merely That The Data Coming In From The Eyes Anchors The Perception.

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.

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 Hemisphere (the One Without Language), The Patient Will Get Up And Start Walking. If You Stop Him And Ask Why He's Leaving, His Left Hemisphere, Cooking Up An Answer, Will Say Something Like "i Was Going To Get A Drink Of Water."