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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.
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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.
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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.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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1951
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