Vilayanur S. Ramachandran - The Tell-Tale Brain (2011)

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Your "conscious life" is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran