So why does the world appear stable to you when you’re looking at it? Why doesn’t it appear as jerky and nauseating as the poorly filmed video? Here’s why: your internal model operates under the assumption that the world outside is stable. Your eyes are not like video cameras — they simply venture out to find more details to feed into the internal model. They’re not like camera lenses that you’re seeing through; they’re gathering bits of data to feed the world inside your skull." The Brain: The Story of You - David Eagleman . David Eagleman
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  2. It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

  3. Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

  4. Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

  5. All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

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