It Is Only Through Us That God

A Mere 400 Years After Our Fall From The Center Of The Universe, We Have Experienced The Fall From The Center Of Ourselves.

As Walt Whitman Correctly Surmised, We Are Large And We Harbor Multitudes Within Us. And Those Multitudes Are Locked In Chronic Battle. There Is An Ongoing Conversation Among The Different Factions In Your Brain, Each Competing To Control The Single Output Channel Of Your Behavior. As A Result, You Can Accomplish The Strange Feats Of Arguing With Yourself, Cursing At Yourself, And Cajoling Yourself To Do Something - Feats That Modern Computers Simply Do Not Do.

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 Tissue As There Are Stars In The Milky Way Galaxy.

Keep In Mind That Every Single Generation Before Us Has Worked Under The Assumption That They Possessed All The Major Tools For Understanding The Universe, And They Were All Wrong, Without Exception.

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.