How Does All This Fade Into Your Writing Process?

There are many parts of the writing process, but I'll talk about two of them to start with. One of them is completely unconscious, and it comes out of this area of the brain that we're talking about where unconscious things are stored. The people at the Santa Fe Institute refer to this as the night shift. That's what happens when you're not paying attention. And so you, when you read my next book, you'll see passages in it that seem very poetic. But there are other elements in my writing because it tends to be about science and the brain and all that stuff; those I have to do much more deliberately.

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