Debbie Foster
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Debbie Foster
A book isn't a gym; it doesn't exist for you, to fix you, but for itself alone.
Lyta Gold • Dangerous Fictions
everything made of matter, including brains, may bear the traces of their entanglements in both directions across time.
Eric Wargo • Time Loops
Israeli physicist named Yakir Aharonov basically agreed with Einstein about God not playing dice, and he proposed that the future is the hidden variable underlying quantum strangeness. Individual particles, such as those photons passing through the slits of the double-slit experiment, are actually influenced by what will happen to them next (i.e.,
... See moreEric Wargo • Time Loops
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
Jeffrey J. Kripal • How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else
This is a new phenomenon called context collapse . Because there are so many different audiences interacting on social media, communication intended for one audience often finds unintended audiences, which could process it in a different context and then use the information in a new way (in these cases, as general jokes rather than specific
... See moreAdam Aleksic • Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
The principle we must accept if we want to go on with our lives is that no paradox makes the world stop functioning as it should. The laws of the universe get their say. Things always snap back to how they should be, and a paradox always eventually runs out its charge. The only reasons why paradoxes perpetuate for as long as they do is because we
... See moreR. F Kuang • Katabasis: A Fantastical Descent into Hell, Rivalry, and Redemption in the Pursuit of Academic Glory from Author of Yellowface—R. F. Kuang
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That seemed to be the Iranian way: to undermine every certainty and recognize how every presumption was provisional.
Pico Iyer • The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
A garden was among the first examples Foucault gave when he was developing his concept of heterotopia —a space that is apart from but nonetheless shaped by the society that made it. (Some others: a library, a ship, a prison.) A heterotopia, he wrote, must be entered ritually…
Heather Christle • In the Rhododendrons
Fiction may represent and inform a changing reality: it can contribute to the disruption of that feedback loop. But it can't change reality on its own, by itself.