‘A robot’s gaze, face, and voice allow us to imagine a meeting of the minds.’*

‘”… far from being a cold engine for processing information, neural connections are shaped by emotions” … even if it were possible to maintain a disembodied brain, that brain would not be able to think …’**

The brain and the body are not two systems but one: when we feel better or more fully about something our attention and thinking improve.

A twenty six year old male’s interaction with the robot Kismet becomes increasingly intimate as he finds it mirroring him – the power of emotions and thinking.  A class’s learning goes up when the the students feel good about it – everyone becomes more clever.

Elle Luna writes about noticing our mustiness: ‘our instincts, our cravings, our longings, the things and places and ideas we burn for, the intuition that swells up from somewhere deep inside of us’^

We often miss the energy we feel at some things but not others, yet this energy is critical for directing us to the bountiful life, when we are alone and when we are together.

(*From Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together.)
(**Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber’s The Slow Professor, quoting David Brooks.)
(^From Elle Luna’s essay The Crossroads of Should and Must.)