Incognito - David Eagleman

You can fit seventeen moons into your blind spot.

Your brain invents... You're not perceiving what's out there.  You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.

perception works not by building up bits of captured data, but instead by matching expectations to incoming sensory data.

Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't.  Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true... the next time someone says, "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?", consider the question carefully.

E.M. Forster "How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?"

The magnetic power of unconscious self-love goes beyond what and whom you prefer.  (name, birthday, looks)

In the logic of the brain, if you don't have the right tool for the job, create it.

Men with more copies of RS3 334 scored worse on measures of pair-bonding.  (more copies weaker the effect the vasopressin in the bloodstream would have in the brain)

57% of Frontotemporal dementia goes berserk.

882% more odd for committing crime with particular set of genes. (Homicidal somnambulism - sleep killing)

Throw a coin and see which side you prefer before revealing results - your brain worked it out in a split second.

Temporal lobe epilepsy - religion neuron.

Antons's syndrome
Implicit egotism
Prosopagnosic
mere exposure
illusion of truth effect
unwelt
umgebung
synesthesia
HMC major histocompatibility complex