Lately I've been wanting to get into people's minds more and more. No, it's not a weird urge to know every thought of everyone around me (though it would be somewhat cool). No, the what doesn't particularly interest me. What I want to know is how. I want to know how fast they can add two four-digit numbers, how much they remember of the book they read two years ago, how green the green of birch leaves are to them, how the world works in their eyes. I want to know how other people tick, how their gears are connected and in which direction they turn. And I hate the fact that this knowledge currently can't be gained in the same way ancient biologists gained their knowledge of the human anatomy - by cutting subjects open and taking notes.

I could always read up something on the subject of human psychology, but it's a soft science. It tells a lot of useless whats and far too little hows and even then not the ones I need to know.