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I would love to be able to read minds. How cool would it be to get inside peoples' heads and figure out what they're thinking? I guess that's a good and a bad thing.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.