I found this statement funny: "Moreover, would you want this “fall dead” switch to make all of your brain run at half its best speed?" ...because this is actu

I found this statement funny: "Moreover, would you want this “fall dead” switch to make all of your brain run at half its best speed?" ...because this is actually how our brains work! We are much slower to process and respond to all sorts of stimuli (visual, auditory, conceptual [reading]) when it is contradictory. Think of the feeling you get looking at an Escher sketch.