> Epigraph: "Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."....Blaise Pascal, "Pensees"
> "...there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy"
> "The brain works its machinations in secret, conjuring ideas like tremendous magic. It does not allow its colossal operating system to be probed by conscious cognition. The brain runs its show incognito."
> "As Carl Jung put it, "In each of us there is another whom we do not know." As Pink Floyd put it, "There's someone in my head, but it's not me."
> :The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity."
> Freud> "In this new view, the mind was not simply equal to the conscious part we familiarly live with; rather it was like an iceberg, the majority of its mass hidden from sight."........and....."This sense of the vast presence below the surface led him to chew on the question of free will. He reasoned that if choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered."
> "A centipede was happy quite,Until a frog in fun, Said "Pray tell which leg comes after which?", This raised her mind to such a pitch, She lay distracted in the ditch, Not knowing how to run."
> "Man is a plant which bears thoughts, just as a rose-tree bears roses and an apple-tree bears apples." Antoine Fabre D'Olivet, "L'Histoire philosophique du genre humain"
> "Incredible the Lodging, But limited the Guest.", Emily Dickinson
> "In general, we're least of what our minds do best.", Marvin Minsky, "The Society of Mind"
> "Do I contradict myself>, Very well then I contrsdict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)", Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
> LibraryThing Review: Good treatise on the mysteries of the brain.
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