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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.

What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.

There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.