Josh Chen

“This book is almost entirely about people who lived in small towns a hundred years ago. As much about how they died as about how they lived. But the flash of death illuminated the lifes the victims have lived.”
― Bill James, The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

“Arguably, science is the gradual process by which the cognitive parts of our brains discover the inaccuracies in our deeper, evolutionarily built-in models of the world.”
― Michael S A Graziano, Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience

“Awareness is not a binary switch, on or off. It lies on a spectrum from "zombie" to "Buddha" and everything in between.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“It's a good idea to begin with experiments on single cases and then to confirm the findings through studies of additional patients. By way of analogy, imagine that I cart a pig into your living room and tell you that it can talk. You might say, "Oh, really? Show me." I then wave my wand and the pig starts talking. You might respond, "My God! That's amazing!" You are not likely to say, "Ah, but that's just one pig. Show me a few more and then I might believe you." Yet this is precisely the attitude of many people in my field.”
― V.S. Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind