The Brain Runs Its Show

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.

The Left Hemisphere Acts As An "interpreter," Watching The Actions And Behaviors Of The Body And Assigning A Coherent Narrative To These Events. And The Left Hemisphere Works This Way Even In Normal, Intact Brains. Hidden Programs Drive Actions, And The Left Hemisphere Makes Justifications. This Idea Of Retrospective Storytelling Suggests That We Come To Know Our Own Attitudes And Emotions, At Least Partially, By Inferring Them From Observations Of Our Own Behavior.

Everything That Creates Itself Upon The Backs Of Smaller Scales Will By Those Same Scales Be Consumed.

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 One In Line To Find Out Any Information.

All Life Is No More Than A Match Struck In The Dark And Blown Out Again.