6 Quotes by Beau Lott

We sense the changes in stuff, not the stuff itself. it would be useless to have direct access to the "stuff" because in isolation it would mean absolutely nothing...much in the same way that a single water molecule doesn't tell us about whirlpools

in essence, living is nothing other than experiencing continual trial and error. Living is empirical. To succeed, you need to have as many possibilities - and possible perceptions - at your disposal as your brain will permit

Everything that passes through the windows of our perception is open to infinite interpretations because the sources of the information are multiplicative - meaning the information arising from multiple sources int he world is effectively multiplied together, creating information that is ambiguous

Since the human brain processes light categorically into redness, greeness, blueness, and yellowness, this means that we are only able to see other colors as limited combinations among these four (we can't see red-greens or blue-yellows)

in many contexts to "doubt yet do...with humility" like Dave is possibly the strongest thing one can do

The biological motivation of many of our social and cultural habits and reflexes, including religion and politics, and even hate and racism, is to diminish uncertainty through imposed ruled and rigid environments