"This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs..."

Remember the famous commercial to prevent drug abuse? The one in which they show a fried egg representing your brain on drugs... It is your brain. But you don't have to be on drugs alone to achieve the same state as the fried egg.

The mind is very powerful. It is our mind which produces the works of art, tomes of literary masterpieces, the design of the amazing machines which can make man fly, the ability to land on the moon. All human achievement has a singular source - the human mind. Without it we could not scale Everest and could not design chips which can process more information than we could hold in our heads.

At the same time the mind is fragile. It can at time be difficult to discern fact from fiction. It can play games on us. It can make us believe things so strongly that it inhibits our ability to question. Or even if we do question it can spin the most amazing tales and explanations for why things are the way they are.

Amazing...