Science results from a profoundly social process. The common portrayal — that science emerges from a solitary isolated genius, always laboring alone,… - Michael S. Gazzaniga

My mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas’s court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face. You can build castles in Spain, steal the Golden Fleece, discover Atlantis, realize your childhood dreams and adult ambitions.

Time and time again, as we will see, the brilliant forebears of modern neuroscience abandoned their fierce reasoning skills and, deus ex machina, threw in a spook at the end of their analysis.

Symbols lead a double life, with two different complementary modes of description depending on the job they are doing. In one life, symbols are made of physical material (DNA is made of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphate molecules) that follows Newton’s laws and constrains the building process by its physical structure.