Ivan Roca

“Our conscious experience arises out of the laws of nature, the states of our brain, and our entanglement with the world.”
― John Brockman, Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets – Expert Perspectives on the Mind, Morality, and Ethics

“Liquid water has importance as a solvent, a solute, a reactant and a biomolecule, structuring proteins, nucleic acids, cells and controlling our consciousness. In the meanwhile, water makes up over about half of us and the most abundant solid material and fundamental to start formation. There is a hundred times as many water molecules in our bodies as the sum of all the other molecules. Life cannot evolve or continue, or in other words, everything is nothing without water. Thus, we say that water plays a central role in many of the human activities. However, we nearly always overlook deep researches in the structure and properties of water and the special relationship it has with our lives.”
― Xiao Feng Pang, Water: Molecular Structure And Properties

“And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

“Judgments based on intuition seem mysterious because intuition doesn’t involve explicit knowledge. It doesn’t involve declarative knowledge about facts. Therefore, we can’t explicitly trace the origins of our intuitive judgments. They come from other parts of our knowing. They come from our tacit knowledge and so they feel magical. Intuition sometimes feels like we have ESP, but it isn’t magical—it’s really a consequence of the experience we’ve built up.”
― John Brockman, Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets – Expert Perspectives on the Mind, Morality, and Ethics