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Consciousness Quote by Alva Noe

“Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.” quote by Alva Noe — Download Open image

“Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.”

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The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what knowledge and…

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Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

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“We are out of our heads. We are in the world and of it. We are patterns of active engagement with fluid boundaries and…

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Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

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Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

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If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact that we are ourselves dependent on and distributed over and in a way made up out of the world and processes around us then we can explain certain questions that we otherwise cannot explain and moreover we discover…

One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed…

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Colors are things we experience.

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“Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of…

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You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.

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Perceiving how things are is a mode of exploring how things appear. How they appear is, however, an aspect of how they are. To…

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The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we…

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