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"It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language."
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
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"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."
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"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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"Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate."
Theory
"I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little."
People
"There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem."
Experience
"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes."
Work
"Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that."
Perception
"I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years."
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"Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia."
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"Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with."
Science
"It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language."
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