Debbie Foster

… the Buddhist inner scientist or psychonaut seeks to become conscious of such normally unconscious processes. She thus needs the equivalent of a microscope for this inner exploration. So she develops a subtle model of the self with which she trains herself to identify, in order to experience directly the subtler inner processes.

When Blake writes that a mind cleansed and cleared would see everything as "Infinite," he diagnoses the problem perfectly. Bounded creatures like us cannot make sense of our ambiguous, uncertain worlds from the evidence alone. The signals we sample from the world around us are compatible with an infinite space of possibilities. Our only hope of

She stepped back and examined its scale. Space evoked emotion in the same way an open landscape squeezed a heart. It set the mind to wonder, gave reverence to things beyond the self.

The thing about time was that no matter how Violet had changed on the outside, on the inside she had remained every age she ever was.

She had never been too tired to paint. She would have to update her will. She hadn’t looked at it since Richard died. “What

My whole life I had believed that understanding myself required to keep others at a distance, lined up on the far side of a river. That evening of counting I had not felt so certain. That evening I felt like a room with doors open, for others to explore, and that from their explorations I could start to ascertain my shape. We are not the people we

In the human brain, language is the window to our inner simulation. Language is the interface to our mental world. And language is built on the foundation of our ability to model and reason about the minds of others--to infer what they mean and figure out exactly which words will produce the desired simulation in their mind.

…without incorporating an inner model of the external world or a model of other minds--without the breakthroughs of simulating and mentalizing—these LLMs will fail to capture something essential about human intelligence. And the more rapid the adoption of LLMS—the more decisions we offload to them—the more important these subtle differences will

The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.