Sublime

For brains, the equivalent of the software is the cognitive processes that allow the brain to think through what is going on in a social situation and to make predictions about how people will react if you behave in different ways. We actually have to learn much of that.

For the most part, our brains are equal to our environment, a record of our personal past, a reflection of the life we’ve lived.

“To grow to adulthood as a social species, including humans, is not to become autonomous and solitary, it’s to become the one on whom others can depend. Whether we know it or not, our brain and biology have been shaped to favor this outcome.”

Distracted

“I am not fully known to myself because part of what I am is the enigmatic traces of others.”

Much of what you learn is via this progression from thinking to doing to being, and three areas of the brain facilitate this mode of learning.

First, children may lose their curiosity because they lack cognitive stimulation tailored to their needs.