“Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 p...” — Peter Diamandis Quote

Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?

As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

What is America? Best brains in the world migrate to the U.S. If there are best brains, they will produce best results.

People have been writing songs and poems since the time we had brains.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.