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The Creative Brain: The Science of Genius

by Nancy C. Andreasen

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Jul 04, 2025 04:53PM

“Because even lower animals do not treat their females so badly or kill them. From this perspective, I see Redeye as a harbinger of humanity, despite his lack of progress since the time of his ancestors, because only the male of the human species kills the female.”
― Jack London, Before Adam & Other Stories

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“The rents are scandalous: they only want rich people to live in this city, no one else. It’s for tourists. They’re cleaning the graffiti! There were some that were really beautiful, no other city in the world had graffiti like Barcelona’s. But just try to explain to those brutes what art is. The fuck. They ruin everything.”
“A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, ‘Tourists, you’re the terrorists.’ They gave him like four months. Poor guy,” said Julieta.”
― Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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“And no one knows how many of the dolphins that leap in the waters of the Inmost Sea were men once, wise men, who forgot their wisdom and their name in the joy of the restless sea.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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“Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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“Joshua Greene ve Jonathan Cohen adlı nörobilimciler tarafından önerilen alternatif yoruma göre iki senaryo arasındaki fark, bir insana “dokunmak”, yani onunla yakın mesafeden etkileşim kurmakla ilgilidir. Aynı soru, köprüdeki adamın, bir düğmeye bastığınızda açılan bir kapak yoluyla aşağı düşmesini olası kılacak biçimde kurulduğunda, oyunu adamın düşmesi yönünde kullanan epeyce kişi çıkar. Adamla yakın temasta bulunma düşüncesi, bir nedenle insanları onu ölüme itmekten caydırmaktadır. Neden mi? Çünkü bu tür bir kişisel etkileşim, duygusal ağları harekete geçirir; problemi soyut, kişiler üstü bir matematik problemi olmaktan çıkarıp kişisel ve duygusal bir karara dönüştürür.”
― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

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