One Of The Most Impressive

The Drives You Take For Granted ("i'm A Hetero/homosexual," "i'm Attracted To Children/adults," "i'm Aggressive/not Aggressive," And So On) Depend On The Intricate Details Of Your Neural Machinery.

We Are Made Up Of An Entire Parliament Of Pieces And Parts And Subsystems. Beyond A Collection Of Local Expert Systems, We Are Collections Of Overlapping, Ceaselessly Reinvented Mechanism, A Group Of Competing Factions. The Conscious Mind Fabricates Stories To Explain The Sometimes Inexplicable Dynamics Of The Subsystem Inside Brain. It Can Be Disquieting To Consider The Extent To Which All Of Our Actions Are Driven By Hardwired Systems Doing What They Do Best While We Overlay Stories About Choices.

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 Are Nothing But The Product Of Billions Of Years Of Molecules Coming Together And Ratcheting Up Through Natural Selection, We Are Composed Only Of Highways Of Fluids And Chemicals Sliding Along Roadways Within Billions Of Dancing Cells, Trillions Of Synaptic Conversations Hum In Parallel, This Vast Egglike Fabric Of Micron-thin Circuitry Runs Algorithms Undreamt Of In Modern Science, And These Neural Programs Give Rise To Our Decision Making, Loves, Desires, Fears, And Aspirations. That Understanding Would Be A Numinous Experience, Better Than Anything Ever Proposed In Anyone's Holy Text.

Among All The Creatures Of Creation, The Gods Favor Us: We Are The Only Ones Who Can Empathize With Their Problems.