Debbie Foster

that idea—that information from the future “refluxes” to influence us in the present—is actually a very reasonable one, having increasing scientific support and plausibility.

counts as an “event” at all is purely arbitrary.

To think impossibly is, first and foremost, to think-with individuals and their experiences, however fantastic these experiences become or, better, precisely because they become so fantastic.

When it comes to learning, Triumph is the real foe; it’s Disaster that’s your teacher. It’s Disaster that brings objectivity. It’s Disaster that’s the antidote to that greatest of delusions, overconfidence. And ultimately, both Triumph and Disaster are impostors. They are results that are subject to chance. One of them just happens to be a better

Something radically strange and counterintuitive must be true about the relationship between mind and world.

I will even suggest that what since Freud’s day has been described as the neurosis- and creativity-generating “unconscious mind” may really be our waking consciousness displaced in time.

Everything that exists in a fundamental sense has causal power, the power to take and to make a difference. All of physics can be expressed in this operational manner, using conditional probabilities. That is what is meant by being physical: having causal powers on others.

It was a collection of movements, an accumulation of details, of the day's patterns, and all of it folded into an incessant questioning, a logical grinding, a cool fever, a free-range brain activity, busy organizing and rationalizing without any help from me, rather like data processing, conducted without any human interference. There were parts of

Creating a useful, accurate picture of something complex and abstract is very difficult. And there is nothing more complex and abstract than the human mind.