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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."
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"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."
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"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
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"The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
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"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
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"I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions."
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"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
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"Theories pass. The frog remains."
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"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
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"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."
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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."
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"Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news."
Consciousness
"People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best."
People
"It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language."
Language
"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
"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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"Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this."
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"There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem."
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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."
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