Millary

“Just as in life, where much of the knowledge by which we live and by which we construct our adaptive future is doled out bit by bit, as experience accrues, uncertainty reigns. Our knowledge—and the Player’s—is shaped by both the world with which we interact and by the biases inherent in our organism, for example, our preferences for gain over loss, for reward over punishment, for low risk over high risk.”
― António Damásio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

“creativity rests on a “merging of intuition and reason.”
― António Damásio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

“To this Diotima replies that he is the son of Plenty and Poverty, and partakes of the nature of both, and is full and starved by turns.”
― Plato, Symposium

“Developing a mind, which really means developing representations of which one can be made conscious as images, gave organisms a new way to adapt to circumstances of the environment that could not have been foreseen in the genome. The basis for that adaptability probably began by constructing images of the body proper in operation, namely images of the body as it responded to the environment externally (say, using a limb) and internally (regulating the state of viscera).”
― António Damásio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain