Headspace

Thinking about:

• Cognition / consciousness / wisdom: pre-verbal things & neuroscience
• Identity -> behavior: I think I’m an okay thinker, but that’s maybe less than half of who I am
• Creating a being vs creating a product: the role of critical thinking, utility
  • e.g. Replicants in Blade Runner or fabricants in Cloud Atlas
  • Can’t be too smart for your own good
• Things unique to humans to increasingly differentiate: risk-taking & boundary-pushing

Favorite books in no particular order

Fuel to fire of my main character phase:

• Foundation’s Edge by Asimov
• Contact by Carl Sagan
• Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
• 1984
• When asked for Chinese book recs, I suggest 文化苦旅, or A Bitter Journey through Culture. Though obscure, it was maybe half of my personality through middle school

My Goodreads

Favorite musicals

Female main character energy again:

• Elisabeth (a German musical about a romance with der Tod aka Death… you must check it out at least once in life)
• Frozen
• Wicked
• Hadestown