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All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

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

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

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

The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred billion nerve cells, probably a hundred trillion connections. It's just mind-boggling to think of all the different ways in which they're arranged in a baby's head.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.