Debbie Foster

I'm inspired in different ways by languages that are more similar to Japanese and more distant. Sometimes when I look at Chinese, I'm overcome by an odd "lag," like I should understand it but I don't. It almost feels like I'm dreaming.

It is, however, a matter of historical record that people have been impacted by their extraordinary experiences, discovering the biblical "peace of God that passeth all understanding," altering their way of life. Thus a more nuanced approach is to accept these reports as authentic and honest descriptions. They teach us that our central nervous

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

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, like so much of Freud's writing, transcends its apparent purpose and makes a super ordinate point about self-understanding. Small things matter. The humdrum and the mundane are as telling - perhaps even more so - as prizes, major undertakings, feats and exploits. Even something as inconsequential as dropping a

The real power of digital memories will be to trigger our human ones.

Experiences that fundamentally change the way we see the world provide clues about consciousness. I learned that the experience of self is optional. Even the feeling of having a body is not necessary for subjectivity. Transformative experiences are deeply personal and can profoundly impact lives. They are living proof that nervous tissue, under

Nobody likes their placidity being taken for granted; I saw him try to show us some anger from time to time. He never even made it to indignation—it was like he couldn't find his way there, and, discovering that he was too proud to ask for directions, he turned around and went home to his main facial expression, the one that was half indifference

Located at the base and back of the brain in two kumquat-shaped lobes, the cerebellum is small—it occupies only 10 percent of brain volume—but it is powerful: it contains a full 75 percent of the neurons of the brain.