“Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.”

“A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain ti...”

“The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly...”

“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways...”

“Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.”