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Without Ducking Responsibility, What's Wrong With Medicine Today Is That It Is Predicated On Providing Treatment, Not On Reducing Suffering. Not On Solving Problems.

If We Knew About The Real Facts And Statistics Of Mortality, We’d Be Terrified.

People Think Of Art And Science As Being Fundamentally Opposed To Each Other, Because Art Is About Celebrating Individual Human Creativity, And Science Is About Discovering General Principles, Not About Individual People. But In Fact, The Two Have A Lot In Common, And The Creative Spirit Is Similar In Both.

There Are 100 Billion Neurons In The Adult Human Brain, And Each Neuron Makes Something Like 1,000 To 10,000 Contacts With Other Neurons In The Brain. Based On This, People Have Calculated That The Number Of Permutations And Combinations Of Brain Activity Exceeds The Number Of Elementary Particles In The Universe.

Yet As Human Beings We Have To Accept-with Humility-that The Question Of Ultimate Origins Will Always Remain With Us, No Matter How Deeply We Understand The Brain And The Cosmos That It Creates.