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The cardinal background principle for the theorist is that there are no homunculi. There is no little person in the brain who ‘sees’ an inner television screen, ‘hears’ an inner voice, ‘reads’ the topographical maps, weighs reasons, decides actions and so forth. There are just neurons and their connections. When a person sees, it is because neurons, individually blind and individually stupid neurons, are collectively orchestrated in the appropriate manner…In a relaxed mood we still understand perceiving, thinking, control and so forth, on the model of a self – a clever self – that does the perceiving, thinking and controlling. It takes effort to remember that the cleverness of the brain is explained not by the cleverness of a self but by the functioning of the neuronal machine that is the brain…In one’s own case, of course, it seems quite shocking that one’s cleverness should be the outcome of well-orchestrated stupidity.

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Since man is above all future-making, he is, above all, a swarm of hopes and fears.

J. Ortega y Gasset