Debbie Foster

For a piece of information to be meaningful, it needs to be reliably paired with another piece of information that gives it context or serves as its cipher.

I would argue that the doodle is to modernism something like what the beautiful once was to the Renaissance: an aesthetic form that indicates a wider system of value intrinsic to a period of history. The beautiful embodies Renaissance ideals of harmony, rationality and humanism, just as the doodle alerts us to modernism’s fascination with

state changes in several areas (specifically the insular cortex, anterior cingulate, amygdala, and nucleus accumbens) allowed them to predict moments when participants would switch between new emotional states.

Games, a universal in human societies, might have emerged as a framework for building mental models of one another. They may have been preserved and elaborated across generations thanks to their benefits in teaching people how to reason about one another. Players must understand the beliefs and preferences of other players to secure the best

The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.

The time-symmetric, retrocausal framework advanced by Aharonov and his colleagues is sometimes called the two-state vector formalism

There is ample scientific evidence to show us that the most fulfilling lives are the ones that maximize feelings of autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

The intuition that otherness signals supernatural contact is common.

There are good evolutionary reasons why strong emotion might play an important role in precognition (or James Carpenter’s “first sight”): It needs to orient us to new information relevant to our survival so that we can update our knowledge about the world in a fruitful way.