If You Ever Feel Lazy

Modern Neuroimaging Is Like Asking An Astronaut In The Space Shuttle To Look Out The Window And Judge How America Is Doing.

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 Rivals - Is Optimal For Brains. ... Some Balance Of The Emotional And Rational Systems Is Needed, And That Balance May Already Be Optimized By Natural Selection In Human Brains.

In My View, The Argument From Parsimony Is Really No Argument At All - It Typically Functions Only To Shut Down More Interesting Discussion. If History Is Any Guide, It's Never A Good Idea To Assume That A Scientific Problem Is Cornered.

We Spend Our Lives On A Thin Slice Between The Unimaginably Small Scales Of The Atoms That Compose Us And The Infinitely Large Scales Of Galaxies.

When We're In A Human Body, We Don't Care About Universal Collapse - Instead, We Care Only About A Meeting Of The Eyes, A Glimpse Of Bare Flesh, The Caressing Tones Of A Loved Voice, Joy, Love, Light, The Orientation Of A House Plant, The Shade Of A Paint Stroke, The Arrangement Of Hair.