Our Ability To Perceive The World Around

Indeed, The Line Between Perceiving And Hallucinating Is Not As Crisp As We Like To Think. In A Sense, When We Look At The World, We Are Hallucinating All The Time. One Could Almost Regard Perception As The Act Of Choosing The One Hallucination That Best Fits The Incoming Data.

Self-awareness Is A Trait That Not Only Makes Us Human But Also Paradoxically Makes Us Want To Be More Than Merely Human. As I Said In My Bbc Reith Lectures, “science Tells Us We Are Merely Beasts, But We Don’t Feel Like That. We Feel Like Angels Trapped Inside The Bodies Of Beasts, Forever Craving Transcendence

A Culture Without Mythology Is Not Really A Civilisation.

The Brain Abhors Discrepancies.

Any Ape Can Reach For A Banana, But Only Humans Can Reach For The Stars.