top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
Standard
Customized
More
"There is no reality except the one contained within us."
Author Name
Personal Development
"From all aspects of human perception, you truly are your brain."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The level of consciousness determines the deepness of thoughts and the awareness of the beauty of life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When someone achieves higher consciousness, he or she never dies. They only transform."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The level of consciousness defines the beauty of our lives."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is pretty simple - mind is a part of life - consciousness is a part of mind - God is a part of consciousness."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Water and a bubble on it are one and the same. The bubble has its birth in the water, floats on it, and is ultimately resolved into it. Likewise, your consciousness is born in your brain, goes through various states in your lifetime and ultimately resolves into the brain."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When you achieve higher consciousness you will not achieve anything, but you will lose everything that is not important and is not yours."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."
Body
"I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding.""
Understanding
"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."
Existence
"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."
Business
"We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions."
Philosophy
"There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument."
Argument
"I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing."
Car
"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on."
Decision-Making
"Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples."
Philosophy
"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
Consciousness
bottom of page