The Majority Of Human Beings

Those With Anton's Syndrome Are Not Pretending They Are Not Blind; They Truly Believe They Are Not Blind. Their Verbal Reports, While Inaccurate, Are Not Lies. Instead, They Are Experiencing What They Take To Be Vision, But It Is All Internally Generated.

Knowing Yourself Now Requires The Understanding That The Conscious You Occupies Only A Small Room In The Mansion Of The Brain, And That It Has Little Control Over The Reality Constructed For You.

If You Have Certain Problems With Your Brain But Are Raised In A Good Home, You Might Turn Out Okay. If Your Brain Is Fine And Your Home Is Terrible, You Might Still Turn Out Fine. But If You Have Mild Brain Damage And End Up With A Bad Home Life, You're Tossing The Dice For A Very Unlucky Synergy.

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.

Even Though The Outside World Has Not Changed, Your Brain Dynamically Presents Different Interpretations.