Sublime

stories. As neuroscientist David Eagleman relates, “[S]tories are crafted to plug into what matters to the brain.”

As the interpersonal neurobiologist Dan Siegel summarizes it, the mind uses the brain to make the mind.

the memory of an event can become branded neurologically in the brain, and that scene becomes frozen in time in our gray matter,

Each mind is relentlessly remaking itself.

The system puts enormous work into shifting itself to a point where it can maximize information.

What we now know is that the brain is flexible, or plastic in the parlance of neuroscientists—more

Adam recalls something he learned in graduate school: memory is always a collaboration in progress.

“Creative individuals alternate order and disorder, simplicity and complexity, sanity and craziness in an ongoing process.”