"There is a presence in what is missing." That presence is our own. - Jonah Lehrer

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of poetry is also true of DNA: 'all meanings depend on the key of interpretation.' What makes us human, and what makes each of us his or her own human, is not simply the genes that we have buried into our base pairs, but how our cells, in dialogue with our environment, feed back to our DNA, changing the way we read ourselves. Life is a dialectic.

Neuroscience has contributed so much in just a few decades to how we think about human nature and how we know ourselves.

People who are more rational don't perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.