It Turns Out Your Conscious

Who You Are Depends On The Sum Total Of Your Neurobiology.

Some Men May Be Genetically Inclined To Have And Hold A Single Partner, While Some May Not. In The Near Future, Young Women Who Stay Current With The Scientific Literature May Demand Genetic Tests Of Their Boyfriends To Assess How Likely They Are To Make Faithful Husbands.

My Lab And Academic Work Fill My Day From About 9 Am To 7 P.m. Then I Zoom Out The Lens To Work On My Other Writing.

Imbalance Of Reason And Emotion May Explain The Tenacity Of Religion In Societies: World Religions Are Optimized To Tap Into The Emotional Networks, And Great Arguments Of Reason Amount To Little Against Such Magnetic Pull.

As Walt Whitman Correctly Surmised, We Are Large And We Harbor Multitudes Within Us. And Those Multitudes Are Locked In Chronic Battle. There Is An Ongoing Conversation Among The Different Factions In Your Brain, Each Competing To Control The Single Output Channel Of Your Behavior. As A Result, You Can Accomplish The Strange Feats Of Arguing With Yourself, Cursing At Yourself, And Cajoling Yourself To Do Something - Feats That Modern Computers Simply Do Not Do.