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Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the Stone Age. They are not evolving with the pace of change.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.