Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother.
“In 1986 Eccles proposed that the probability of neurotransmitter release depended on quantum mechanical processes, which can be influenced by the intervention of the mind. This, Eccles said, provided a basis for the action of a free will.”
― The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
― The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
“One of the most striking aspects of OCD urges is that, except in the most severe cases, they are what is called ego-dystonic: they seem apart from, and at odds with, one’s intrinsic sense of self.”
― The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
― The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
“That one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else…is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has…any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent…but whether this agent be material or immaterial is a question I have left to…my readers.”
― The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
― The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
“Consciousness is more than perceiving and knowing; it is knowing that you know.”
― The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
― The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
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