‘In the face of interruption, our own thinking barely has a chance to form’ Illustration: Phil Hackett/The Observer To stay fully Homo sapiens our minds and hearts need this promise.Īnd yet it is nowhere. Our brains needed it to keep forming when we were infants, almost marsupially. ![]() In fact, says the science, we were born expecting it. Every day, in every interaction, vital or trivial, we hope for the kind of presence that lets our brains and hearts find themselves. We long for that gentle, rigorous expanse that produces felt thinking and thoughtful feeling. We all long for this, the promise of no interruption, the promise of interest, the promise of attention while we think, the promise of this much respect for us all as human beings. And because you in turn promise not to interrupt me, I open mine. And because you know I will not interrupt you, you will want, when you finish, to know what I think, too, even if we disagree deeply.
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