Behavior Is The Outcome Of The Battle

Each Cell Sends Electrical Pulses To Other Cells, Up To Hundreds Of Times Per Second. If You Represented Each Of These Trillions And Trillions Of Pulses In Your Brain By A Single Photon Of Light, The Combined Output Would Be Blinding.

All Life Is No More Than A Match Struck In The Dark And Blown Out Again.

The Left Hemisphere Acts As An "interpreter," Watching The Actions And Behaviors Of The Body And Assigning A Coherent Narrative To These Events. And The Left Hemisphere Works This Way Even In Normal, Intact Brains. Hidden Programs Drive Actions, And The Left Hemisphere Makes Justifications. This Idea Of Retrospective Storytelling Suggests That We Come To Know Our Own Attitudes And Emotions, At Least Partially, By Inferring Them From Observations Of Our Own Behavior.

Neuroscience Over The Next 50 Years Is Going To Introduce Things That Are Mind-blowing.

In Our Current Understanding Of Science, We Can't Find The Physical Gap In Which To Slip Free Will - The Uncaused Causer - Because There Seems To Be No Part Of The Machinery That Does Not Follow In A Causal Relationship From The Other Parts.