Sublime

also has to be inferred.

Our brains construct our experiences,

If a blind person passed her finger repeatedly over the bumps of Braille, but had no motivation to learn it, no rewiring would occur, because the right neuromodulators would not be present. Similarly, if adding a new telelimb to your body has relevance to you, your body will learn it—just as Faith the dog mastered a unique body plan.

The system puts enormous work into shifting itself to a point where it can maximize information.

“Perhaps the most important revelation is precisely this: that the left cerebral hemisphere of humans is prone to fabricating verbal narratives that do not necessarily accord with the truth.” And Michael Gazzaniga writes: “The left brain weaves its story in order to convince itself and you that it is in full control….What is so adaptive about havin

For the bulk of human history, the most learned members of our species have wildly underestimated the human brain’s capabilities. This is understandable, since your brain occupies only about 2 percent of your body mass, and it looks like a blob of gray gelatin. Ancient Egyptians deemed it a useless organ and tugged it out of dead pharaohs through t