Debbie Foster

All quality is a structure, not a function, a process, or a computation. One implication is that consciousness is nonalgorithmic; it is not (Turing) computable.

Contrary to popular belief, the most important message to come from the science of memory is not that you can or even should remember more. The problem isn't your memory, it's that we have the wrong expectations for what memory is for in the first place.

We are not supposed to remember everything from our past. The mechanisms of memory were not

a high-functioning Silicon Valley executive suffers from partial seizures in a region within the posteromedial cortex (on the inward-facing side of the cortical hemisphere, along the midline) during which his sense of self is distorted, including his perceived location in space; he eavesdrops on his own thoughts, a form of depersonalization. Direct

The problem with the more sensationalist worries about superintelligence is that they rely on an as-yet-untested extrapolative principle. The logic goes roughly as follows: an intelligent system is one that can achieve its goals, ergo, a super-duper intelligent system is one that can literally do anything. Even things that seem to us impossible,

In fact, the many reasons why you may be procrastinating can be divided into just three categories: they can stem from your head, your heart, or your hand.

Jacques Derrida once observed that some of the major events in his life were meetings with books.

Thinking is not a matter of planning to think X and then doing so; X suddenly appears in the mind, seemingly unbidden, inviting us to think it. Every moment of our conscious lives is a Eureka! moment.

"What an adventure!” is what you want to exclaim in a few years when you look back on your path and see all the wiggles and question marks characteristic of an experimental approach to life.

By the fantastic, I mean something that is exotic, outlandish, or shocking (apparently, it is trying to get our attention), something that actually happened in both the material and menal domains, which are in turn being mediated by the imagination.