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

The brain abhors discrepancies.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

Surprisingly, the gigantic capacity of storage with the human brain is not utilized for a fraction of a percent of its capacity! None within the purview of human knowledge is known to be inactive than the human brain!

The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability on behavior and to prevent vacillation because indecisiveness doesn't serve any purpose. Any decision, so long as it is probably correct, is better than no decision at all. A perpetually fickle general will never win a war.

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