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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.

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us - usually spotty - and helps to shape and construct the more complete picture we consciously perceive.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition, perception, memory and emotion at the level of networks of interacting neurons, the level at which we believe many of the important operations of the brain take place.

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

I want to know how the mind works.