Debbie Foster

When you are immersed in a foreign language for several years and are taking in a new language system, part of the theoretical basis for your mother tongue breaks down, changes form, and a new self is born. Some writers strongly dislike this immigrant condition, in which one's "original self" gets broken down.

By combining Husserl's ideas and the ideas behind Gestalt psychology, Gurwitsch came to reject the notion of an ego as a phenomenological datum and saw the 'I' instead as a chain of experiences.

Our minds evolved to understand the world, which requires that the world be understandable. And we are of this world.

build your experience by turning your interests into action, focusing on how you can create value for others

By the fantastic, I mean something that is often very physical, empirical, and sometimes even witnessed by many people. I mean something that possesses its own agency and purpose and often changes history, be it of a single person or an entire civilizatio

[C]onventions of self-consciousness and inward scrutinizing [were] not common much before the Renaissance and not highly developed until people in the later eighteenth century became obsessed with “personality.” Paul Fussell The Norton Book of Travel

Our goal is to get our reflexive minds to execute on our deliberative minds’ best intentions.

Mere computation, the transformation of information, is not enough for the making of meaning.

…the less the knower knows himself, the less he knows what it is to have knowledge of anything and the limits of that knowledge. Evasion of the self inside our heads is really a training exercise for evading the world outside our heads.