“Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.”
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.”
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.”
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.”
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us.
Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.”
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Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.”
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