All Life Is No More

Who You Are Depends On The Sum Total Of Your Neurobiology.

If You Cannot Always Elicit A Straight Answer From The Unconscious Brain, How Can You Access Its Knowledge? Sometimes The Trick Is Merely To Probe What Your Gut Is Telling You. So The Next Time A Friend Laments That She Cannot Decide Between Two Options, Tell Her The Easiest Way To Solve Her Problem: Flip A Coin. She Should Specify Which Option Belongs To Heads And Which To Tails, And Then Let The Coin Fly. The Important Part Is To Assess Her Gut Feeling After The Coin Lands. If She Feels A Subtle Sense Of Relief At Being "told" What To Do By The Coin, That's The Right Choice For Her.

Who We Can Be Begins With Our Molecular Blueprints - A Series Of Alien Codes Penned In Invisibly Small Strings Of Acids - Well Before We Have Anything To Do With It. We Are A Product Of Our Inaccessible, Microscopic History.

My Lab And Academic Work Fill My Day From About 9 Am To 7 P.m. Then I Zoom Out The Lens To Work On My Other Writing.

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.