When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant notion of conscience."Consciousness" was imported to play in the mental world the role played by light in the… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described how he wrote, talked, ate, fidgeted and fumed. His description was, of course, incomplete, since there were notoriously… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet. — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted. — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers:… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“Minds are not bits of clockwork, they are just bits of not-clockwork. As thus represented, minds are not merely ghosts harnessed to machines, they are themselves just spectral machines. . . . Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share
Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind is in its own place and in each of us lies an inner life, the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear, and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share
When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine,… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
