June 2012
200 posts
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected...
– Audrey Hepburn
Carl Sagan | Psychology Today (1996) →
ikenbot:
“PT: You’ve been most associated with issues of outer space. But you have turned very much to a world of inner space, the human mind.
CS: Well, the boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I’ll probably always be interested in this planet—it’s my favorite. I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human...
We have plasticity but our neocortex has a limited capacity, it’s made up of...
– Ray Kurzweil — Neocortex & Brain plasticity (to keep learning things as you get older)
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you
upon...
– William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart’s Desire