David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives Of The Brain Quotes

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

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.