Sheryl Hill

“Brains of higher complexity can remember more. A brain doesn’t store memories like files in a computer​—​it reconstructs them on demand with electricity and swirling chemicals. We call this process remembering but it’s really assembling.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

“An organization called Seeds of Peace tries to change predictions by bringing together young people from cultures that are in serious conflict,”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

“Divide the infinite future into five-minute blocks, and take them one by one.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar

“Social reality is an incredible gift. You can simply make stuff up, like a meme or a tradition or a law, and if other people treat it as real, it becomes real. Our social world is a buffer we build around the physical world. The author Lynda Barry writes, “We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain