"It doesn't feel so much like a leap of faith as something I know in my heart."  Strange to hear herself say this, but it's the truth.
 
"The heart is a muscle," Bigend corrects.  "You 'know' in your limbic brain.  The seat of instinct.  The mammalian brain.  Deeper, wider, beyond logic.  That is where advertising works, not in the upstart cortex.  What we think of as 'mind' is only a sort of jumped-up gland, piggybacking on the reptilian brainstem and the older, mammalian mind, but our culture tricks us into recognizing it as all of consciousness.  The mammalian spreads continent-wide beneath it, mute and muscular, attending its ancient agenda.  And makes us buy things."

 

- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

 

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