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Reductionism Is Not The Right Viewpoint For Everything, And It Certainly Won't Explain The Relationship Between The Brain And The Mind. This Is Because Of A Feature Known As Emergence. When You Put Together Large Numbers Of Pieces And Parts, The Whole Can Become Something Greater Than The Sum.

This Is The Hallmark Of A Robust Biological System: Political Parties Can Perish In A Tragic Accident And The Society Will Still Run, Sometimes With Little More Than A Hiccup To The System. It May Be That For Every Strange Clinical Case In Which Brain Damage Leads To A Bizarre Change In Behavior Or Perception, There Are Hundreds Of Cases In Which Parts Of The Brain Are Damaged With No Detectable Clinical Sign.

I Know One Lab That Studies Nicotine Receptors And All The Scientists Are Smokers, And Another Lab That Studies Impulse Control And They're All Overweight.

Constant Reminding Ourselves That We Not See With Our Eyes But With Our Synergetic Eye-brain System Working As A Whole Will Produce Constant Astonishment As We Notice, More And More Often, How Much Of Our Perceptions Emerge From Our Preconceptions.

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.