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"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
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"Analysis does not transform consciousness."
"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."
"The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware."
"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."
"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
"And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it."
"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."
"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."
"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
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"I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing."
"An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on."
"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself."
"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."
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