Paul Broks Quotes

#1. Our ethics and systems of justice, our entire moral order, are founded on the notion of society as a collective of individual selves-- autonomous, introspective, accountable agents. If this self-reflective, moral agent is revealed to be illusory, what then?

Paul Broks

#2. When we see the brain we realize that we are, at one level, no more than meat; and, on another, no more than fiction.

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#3. Cosmology and neuropsychology have absurdity in common. The raw facts are strange beyond imagination.

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#4. This is the left hemisphere confabulating. It does this for all of us, every waking moment. It edits our conscious experiences, makes them comprehensible and palatable. It's the brain's spin-doctor.

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#5. How resilient people are. If one day you woke up to find that you had been transformed into a gigantic insect, the chances are you would just get up and carry on with your new life.

Paul Broks