“You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exi...” — Douglas Hofstadter Quote

You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

To suggest things may be going on in our brains that we aren't fully conscious of, that we unknowingly make classist, sexist and racist presumptions... Well, there just aren't many comfortable ways to take that. And in the face of discomfort comes the mask of defence.

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

There needs to be more encouragement and support for women - at an impressionable age - to explore that choreographic side of their brains.

I love getting into people's brains and understanding the creative impetus for something.