If Our Brains Were Simple

All Activity In The Brain Is Driven By Other Activity In The Brain, In A Vastly Complex, Interconnected Network.

In The Traditionally Taught View Of Perception, Data From The Sensorium Pours Into The Brain, Works Its Way Up The Sensory Hierarchy, And Makes Itself Seen, Heard, Smelled, Tasted, Felt - "perceived." But A Closer Examination Of The Data Suggests This Is Incorrect. The Brain Is Properly Thought Of As A Mostly Closed System That Runs On Its Own Internally Generated Activity.

The First Thing We Learn From Studying Our Own Circuitry Is A Simple Lesson: Most Of What We Do And Think And Feel Is Not Under Our Conscious Control.

Love Was Not Specified In The Design Of Your Brain; It Is Merely An Endearing Algorithm That Freeloads On The Leftover Processing Cycles.

Even While It's True That We Are Tied To Our Molecules And Proteins And Neurons - As Strokes And Hormones And Drugs And Microorganisms Indisputably Tell Us - It Does Not Logically Follow That Humans Are Best Described Only As Pieces And Parts.