Debbie Foster
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Debbie Foster
A large region in the back of the neocortex, including temporal, parietal, and occipital neighborhoods, is closely linked to subjective experiences of sight, hearing, touch, and sensing of the body and the self. Because of its close association with consciousness, this region, the current best NCC candidate, is termed the posterior hot zone.
Christof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
The more we identify with a limited and fixed version of our self, the more vulnerable this self is to hurt and harm, to the effects of change, accident and turbulence. If it has no flexibility, it is fragile.
Vincent Deary • How We Break
We have an inbuilt cognitive and behavioural resistance to the new; we work to try to make our ‘now’ just another version of our ‘then,’ so that nothing new needs to be decided, no extra effort needs to be made, no discomfort felt. But a tendency to get stuck in old ways, even in the face of new demands, can become a source of our trembling and
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Anything shadowy, liminal or strange excited the Romantic imagination: atypical mental states, such as dreams, daydreams, madness and creative genius; paranormal phenomena, such as telepathy, ghosts, demons and doppelgangers. The Romantics were even fascinated by the 'otherness' of animals. Cats and dogs often behave as though they can see or hear
... See moreFrank Tallis • Mortal Secrets
despite believing myself to be an integrated self, I talk to myself as if I am composed of several ‘people’.
Andrew Spira • The Invention of the Self
She had outshone at puzzles and abstractions her entire life, and still she had not learned a single thing about how to live.
R. F Kuang • Katabasis: A Fantastical Descent into Hell, Rivalry, and Redemption in the Pursuit of Academic Glory from Author of Yellowface—R. F. Kuang
Large Print ed.
Freud shows us how the hide-and-seek of modern lives works; and that hide-and-seek may be an enlivening way of describing our lives. And that hide-and-seek may make us curious about other ways of describing our lives; and curious about why hide-and-seek has become such a compelling picture.
Adam Phillips • On Giving Up
The fact that Freud's structural model of the mind provides psychological fuel for narratives as different as The Iliad and Forbidden Planet strongly suggests that it captures essences, core dispositions, deep truths. And it continues to be relevant in an ever-changing, modern context.
Frank Tallis • Mortal Secrets
Our minds evolved to understand the world, which requires that the world be understandable. And we are of this world.