The Brain Runs Its Show Incognito.

None Of The Individual Metal Hunks Of An Airplane Have The Property Of flight, But When They Are Attached Together In The Right Way, The Result Takes To The Air. A Thin Metal Bar Won't Do You Much Good If You're Trying To Control A Jaguar, But Several Of Them In Parallel Have The Property Of Containment. The Concept Of Emergent Properties Means That Something New Can Be Introduced That Is Not Inherent In Any Of The Parts.

The Brain Internally Simulates What Will Happen If You Were To Perform Some Action Under Specific Conditions. Internal Models Not Only Play A Role In Motor Acts (such As Catching Or Dodging) But Also Underlie Conscious Perception.

We Are Nothing But The Product Of Billions Of Years Of Molecules Coming Together And Ratcheting Up Through Natural Selection, We Are Composed Only Of Highways Of Fluids And Chemicals Sliding Along Roadways Within Billions Of Dancing Cells, Trillions Of Synaptic Conversations Hum In Parallel, This Vast Egglike Fabric Of Micron-thin Circuitry Runs Algorithms Undreamt Of In Modern Science, And These Neural Programs Give Rise To Our Decision Making, Loves, Desires, Fears, And Aspirations. That Understanding Would Be A Numinous Experience, Better Than Anything Ever Proposed In Anyone's Holy Text.

Knowing Yourself Now Requires The Understanding That The Conscious You Occupies Only A Small Room In The Mansion Of The Brain, And That It Has Little Control Over The Reality Constructed For You.

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.