If Our Brains Were Simple

Imbalance Of Reason And Emotion May Explain The Tenacity Of Religion In Societies: World Religions Are Optimized To Tap Into The Emotional Networks, And Great Arguments Of Reason Amount To Little Against Such Magnetic Pull.

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.

You Are Part Of A Complex Social Network That Changes Your Biology With Every Interaction, And Which Your Actions Can Change.

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.

Your Brain Is Built Of Cells Called Neurons And Glia - Hundreds Of Billions Of Them. Each One Of These Cells Is As Complicated As A City.