Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy

An excerpt from Patricia Churchland's Brain-Wise:

...Indeed, self-deception is no virtue, and upon reflection, we may find it unworthy to give our experiences, wonderful though they may be, an inflated cosmic significance. Isaac Asimov once remarked that astrology narcissistically assumes that the starry universe about us is in fact about us. In Azimov's [sic] formulation, the astrologer's assumption does seem embarrassingly self-important. Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.  In truth, there is an entirely habitable Aristotelian middle ground between the trivial and the grandiose.  There is where humanity lives, and it includes much that is sublime. [p.401]