It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.