Debbie Foster

There is no action that takes place between humans in which secrets do not play a part, whether it be a game of cards or the selling of a cow. The advantage is always to the one who is shrewder in what secret to reveal and when.

However, always err on the side of acceptance rather than control. Ride the wave of chaos instead of vainly trying to contain it.

Recovering memory is more like picking up shards of your past. But even that can be beautiful, because they can be reassembled as a mosaic, which, as the author Terry Tempest Williams says, is “a conversation between what is broken.”

One friend proposed a question: What did everyone hope to learn in the coming year? What were our ambitions? I cringed at my mother's answer: I just want to continue to help people with my art. That's not what it's for, I wanted to say. The smoothness of the idea made me recoil. What, I wanted to ask, might she have been capable of if she could

our brains have evolved this quick-acting system to examine mood and energy, which provides a general sense, in a split second, of someone’s emotional state. That’s usually enough to figure out how to align, and whether we should feel safe or alarmed.

Our blind trust in algorithms helps us believe in the categories assigned to us. Even though personalized recommendations are probabilistic —trying to predict what we like—we often treat them as deterministic , as if they already know what we like. Through that attitude, we become "calcified in our digital identities," each of which can be uniquely

The predictive brain has much in common with Freud's general understanding of how the mind functions. Predictions are comparable to desires (or wishes), and desires encounter limitations imposed by reality. Behaviour is a compromise, a middle way negotiated between internal drives and the environment. These compromises are, in effect, revised

Therefore, in both confabulation and dreaming, altered functioning of the prefrontal cortex may release from reality-filtering or executive constraint an innate human tendency to create stories that organize past, present, and future reality. Dreaming may represent a potent, naturally occurring form of confabulation in which imaginary events are

Sentience implies that an agent experiences the world subjectively. This means that as the brain goes about its business, it generates phenomenal states , that is, mental experiences that are detectable by its bearer.