Debbie Foster

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

Ask others about their beliefs and values. Ask them about experiences and those moments that caused them to change. Ask how they feel, rather than about facts. Reframe your questions so they are deeper. Ask follow-ups. And as people

All education—whether it’s tailored for scholars, slackers, spies, or saboteurs—is really an education in the signs of belonging. We learn to wear the right clothes, say the right things, know the right codes—sometimes for a cover identity, sometimes for an identity we’re determined to make our own.

Abundant research shows that most of the rich and famous, brainy and beautiful are little or no happier than individuals of ordinary means and gifts, because no matter who you are, your joie de vivre mostly derives from paying attention to someone or something that interests you.

If you watch MrBeast's videos, you'll notice that he MAKES EVERY WORD POP FOR MAXIMUM EXCITEMENT! He's constantly stimulating his audience to keep them maximally engaged. I call this the entertainment influencer accent , and it's distinctly identifiable from the "lifestyle influencer accent," even though at their core they do the same thing. Both

What appears to the experiencer, after all, is a part of culture. Indeed, one of my deepest intuitions that I will play out in these pages is that the paranormal is culture working in heretofore unimagined ways—expressing itself, yes, but also overcoming,

the human mind has fundamentally irrational elements. I’d go as far as to say that magical thinking forms the basis of selfhood. Our experience of ourselves and other people is essentially an act of imagination that can’t be sustained through wholly rational modes of thought. We see the light of consciousness in another’s eyes and, irresistibly,

I am arguing that precognition is just memory in reverse, or what we might for convenience call premory

The sum of the phi’s of all distinctions and relations is the integrated information of the circuit in this state, symbolized by the uppercase letter phi, Q. This number measures the irreducibility of the substrate. Something with no integrated information does not exist as an integrated entity, as it can be reduced to two or more subsystems