The Lost SYMBOL "Human instinct was America's first line of defense against terrorism. It was a proven fact that human intuitiion was more accurate detector of danger than all electronic gear in the world - the gift of fear." "Our untapped potential is truly shocking." ORIGIN "Nostradamus wrote nearly a thousand loosely worded quatrains that, over four centuries, have benefitted from the creative readings of superstitious people looking to extract meaning where there is none." "The human brain is a binary system - synapses either fire or they don't - they are on or off, like a computer switch. The brain has over a hundred trillion switches, which means that building a brain is not so much a question of technology as it is a question of scale." "Nicolaus Copernicus was the father of heliocentric model - the belief that the planets revolve around the sun - which ignited a scientific revolution in the 1500s that...