Just Like A Good Drama, The Human

Humans Have Discovered That They Cannot Stop Death, But At Least They Can Spit In His Drink.

If An Epileptic Seizure Is Focused In A Particular Sweet Spot In The Temporal Lobe, A Person Won´t Have Motor Seizures, But Instead Something More Subtle. The Effect Is Something Like A Cognitive Seizure, Marked By Changes Of Personality, Hyperreligiosity (an Obsession With Religion And Feelings Of Religious Certainity), Hypergraphia (extensive Writing On A Subject, Usually About Religion), The False Sense Of An External Presence, And, Often, The Hearing Voices That Are Attributed To A God. Some Fraction Of History´s Prophets, Martyrs, And Leaders Appear To Have Had Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.

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.

If You Have Certain Problems With Your Brain But Are Raised In A Good Home, You Might Turn Out Okay. If Your Brain Is Fine And Your Home Is Terrible, You Might Still Turn Out Fine. But If You Have Mild Brain Damage And End Up With A Bad Home Life, You're Tossing The Dice For A Very Unlucky Synergy.

The First Thing We Learn From Studying Our Own Circuitry Is A Simple Lesson: Most Of What We Do And Think And Feel Is Not Under Our Conscious Control.