The Fold
When the brain reaches maximum integration — when excitation and inhibition approach the equilibrium that equilibrium has before it yields — interior time and exterior time cease to be the same measure.
When the brain reaches maximum integration — when excitation and inhibition approach the equilibrium that equilibrium has before it yields — interior time and exterior time cease to be the same measure.
A question that can only be asked by something for which the answer is already settled is a strange kind of question. The hard problem of consciousness is one of these, and noticing it changes what the problem is evidence for. Chalmers asked why there is experience at all. Everything
what do all of these structures have in common at their most basic physical level?
But on that morning of September the second she looked at her fifty-year-old husband with the golden watch in his hand and felt both things at once — the most complete love she had ever felt, and the deepest fear she had ever carried.
This book was born from a question that has no right answer: what would happen if, in the moment between life and the end, someone showed us what we never knew how to see?