Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
We are astoundingly poor observers. And our introspection is useless on these issues: we believe we’re seeing the world just fine until it’s called to our attention that we’re not.
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.
What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
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.