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Christopher_Wolfgang_Alexander

Biased Decisions and Perceptions

“The self-conscious individual's grasp of problems is constantly misled. His concepts and categories, besides being arbitrary and unsuitable, are self-perpetuating. Under the influence of concepts, he not only does things from a biased point of view, but sees them biasedly as well. The concepts control his perception of fit and misfit — until in the end he sees nothing but deviations from his conceptual dogmas, and loses not only the urge but even the mental opportunity to frame his problems more appropriately.”
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Augustine_of_Hippo

I Am

“But, without any delusive representation of images or phantasms, I am most certain that I am, and that I know and delight in this. In respect of these truths, I am not at all afraid of the arguments of the Academicians, who say, What if you are deceived? For if I am deceived (si fallor), I am (sum). For he who is not, cannot be deceived; and if I am deceived, by this same token I am. And since I am if I am deceived, how am I deceived in believing that I am? For it is certain that I am if I am deceived.”
  • Source: St. Augustine of Hippo (c. 400 CE). In ‘The City of God’, book 11, chapter 26.
Keywords: Reality_quotes Consciousness_quotes Delusion_quotes Belief_quotes Existence_quotes Representation_quotes Image_quotes Phantasm_quotes Certainty_quotes Truth_quotes Afraid_quotes Argument_quotes Academician_quotes Deceive_quotes Token_quotes

Robert_N_Britcher

Consciousness

“Consciousness is a word created by humans, in this case English-speaking humans, to describe something humans know nothing about.”
  • Source: Britcher, Robert N. (1999). The Limits of Software: People, Projects, and Perspectives. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-43323-0. Page 28.
Keywords: Consciousness_quotes Word_quotes Language_quotes Humanity_quotes Knowledge_quotes Ignorance_quotes Create_quotes Speak_quotes Description_quotes

Alistair_Cockburn

People Characteristics

"People, as active devices, have success modes and failure modes. The following are the main ones that I have named and used to date:
1. People are communicating beings, doing best face-to-face, in person, with real-time question and answer.
2. People have trouble acting consistently over time.
3. People are highly variable, varying from day to day and place to place.
4. People generally want to be good citizens, are good at looking around, taking initiative, and doing 'whatever is needed' to get the project to work.
There are other characteristics that I won’t expand here:
- People need both think time and communicating opportunities...
- People work well from examples...
- People prefer to fail conservatively than to risk succeeding differently; prefer to invent than to research, can only keep a small amount in their heads, and do make mistakes, and find it hard to change their habits.
- Individual personalities easily dominate a project.
- A person’s personality profile strongly affects their ability to perform specific assignments."
Keywords: People_quotes Success_quotes Failure_quotes Communication_quotes Proximity_quotes Real_Time_quotes Question_quotes Consistency_quotes Time_quotes Variability_quotes Citizen_quotes Good_quotes Observation_quotes Flexibility_quotes Altruism_quotes Conservative_quotes Initiative_quotes Project_quotes Risk_quotes Differences_quotes Invention_quotes Innovation_quotes Research_quotes Thinking_quotes Habit_quotes Personality_quotes Ability_quotes Limitation_quotes Consciousness_quotes Cognition_quotes Mistake_quotes Hard_quotes Domination_quotes Assignment_quotes Active_quotes Device_quotes Mode_quotes Beings_quotes Face_quotes Person_quotes Answer_quotes Trouble_quotes Day_quotes Place_quotes Look_quotes Need_quotes Work_quotes Characteristic_quotes Opportunity_quotes Example_quotes Fail_quotes Head_quotes Change_quotes Profile_quotes Affect_quotes Perform_quotes

Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi

True Believer

“The true believer is not really interacting with the belief system; he usually lets his psychic energy be absorbed by it. From this submission nothing new can come; consciousness may attain a welcome order, but it will be an order imposed rather than achieved. At best the self of the true believer resembles a crystal: strong and beautifully symmetrical, but very slow to grow.”
  • Source: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience“, chapter “The Elements of Enjoyment”, page 65. Original content published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics in 1990. Kindle edition published by Harper Collins in 2008. ISBN: 978-0061876721.
Keywords: True_quotes Believer_quotes Interact_quotes Belief_quotes System_quotes Usual_quotes Psychic_quotes Energy_quotes Absorb_quotes Submission_quotes Consciousness_quotes Attain_quotes Order_quotes Welcome_quotes Impose_quotes Achieve_quotes Self_quotes Resemble_quotes Crystal_quotes Strong_quotes Beautiful_quotes Symmetric_quotes Slow_quotes Grow_quotes

Flow

“In our studies, we found that every flow activity, whether it involved competition, chance, or any other dimension of experience, had this in common: It provided a sense of discovery, a creative feeling of transporting the person into a new reality. It pushed the person to higher levels of performance, and led to previously undreamed-of states of consciousness. In short, it transformed the self by making it more complex. In this growth of the self lies the key to flow activities.”
  • Source: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience“, chapter “Flow Activities”, page 74. Original content published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics in 1990. Kindle edition published by Harper Collins in 2008. ISBN: 978-0061876721.
Keywords: Flow_quotes Activity_quotes Involve_quotes Competition_quotes Chance_quotes Dimension_quotes Experience_quotes Common_quotes Provide_quotes Sense_quotes Discovery_quotes Creative_quotes Feel_quotes Transport_quotes Person_quotes Reality_quotes Push_quotes Higher_quotes Level_quotes Performance_quotes Led_quotes Previous_quotes Undream_quotes Dream_quotes State_quotes Consciousness_quotes Transform_quotes Self_quotes Make_quotes Complex_quotes Growth_quotes Key_quotes

Daydreaming

“One of the simplest ways to use the mind is daydreaming: playing out some sequence of events as mental images. But even this apparently easy way to order thought is beyond the range of many people... Daydreaming not only helps create emotional order by compensating in imagination for unpleasant reality — as when a person can reduce frustration and aggression against someone who has caused injury by visualizing a situation in which the aggressor is punished — but it also allows children and adults to rehearse imaginary situations so that the best strategy for confronting them may be adopted, alternative options considered, unanticipated consequences discovered — all results that help increase the complexity of consciousness. And, of course, when used with skill, daydreaming can be very enjoyable.”
  • Source: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience“, chapter “The Flow of Thought”, page 120. Original content published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics in 1990. Kindle edition published by Harper Collins in 2008. ISBN: 978-0061876721.
Keywords: Simple_quotes Way_quotes Mind_quotes Daydreaming_quotes Play_quotes Event_quotes Mental_quotes Image_quotes Order_quotes Thought_quotes Beyond_quotes Range_quotes People_quotes Help_quotes Emotion_quotes Compensate_quotes Imagination_quotes Unpleasant_quotes Reality_quotes Reduce_quotes Person_quotes Frustration_quotes Aggression_quotes Cause_quotes Injury_quotes Visualize_quotes Situation_quotes Punish_quotes Allow_quotes Reherse_quotes Best_quotes Strategy_quotes Optimization_quotes Confront_quotes Adopt_quotes Alternative_quotes Unanticipated_quotes Consequence_quotes Discover_quotes Result_quotes Increase_quotes Complexity_quotes Consciousness_quotes Use_quotes Skill_quotes Enjoyable_quotes

Galileo

Taste Color Consciousness

“I think that tastes, odors, colors, and so on are no more than mere names so far as the object in which we locate them are concerned, and that they reside only in the consciousness. Hence if the living creature were removed, all these qualities would be wiped away and annihilated”
  • Source: Galileo Galilei, in The Assayer, published 1623, as reprinted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, translated by Stillman Drake, published 1957, page 274.
Keywords: Think_quotes Taste_quotes Odor_quotes Color_quotes Name_quotes Object_quotes Reside_quotes Consciousness_quotes Living_quotes Creature_quotes Remove_quotes Quality_quotes Wipe_quotes Annihilate_quotes

Donald_Hoffman

Consciousness Not From Space-Time

“But you can't boot up consciousness from space-time objects. It's just not possible.”
  • Source: Donald D. Hoffman in a youtube video entitled "Proof That Reality Is An Illusion: The Mystery Beyond Space-Time", posted on the "André Duqum" channel, quote at about 31 minutes into video, viewed 2023-09-12.
Keywords: Boot_quotes Consciousness_quotes Up_quotes Space-Time_quotes Object_quotes Possibility_quotes

Spacetime Deep Enough

“The question is, is spacetime itself a deep enough structure for us to try to boot up consciousness from.”
  • Source: Donald Hoffman, in the YouTube video entitled “Donald Hoffman's New Approach To Consciousness” channel “Dr Brian Keating”. Online at <https://youtu.be/mU_WBela71Y?si=fNfLLsOsUDRDC1XD> posted 2024-08, retrieved 2024-08. In video at 36:10.
Keywords: Question_quotes Spacetime_quotes Deep_quotes Structure_quotes Try_quotes Boot_quotes Consciousness_quotes

AI Computation

“If we look at an LLM [Large Language Model] or a future AI [Artificial Intelligence], it's going to be some kind of computational system. And computational systems have their limits. We have Gödel who said that at a minimum. I'm betting that you and I are avatars of an infinite intelligence that's the true source of all creativity and that Einstein or any scientist taps into when they come up with their truly original ideas. The first step would be to say, if it's just a computational bias, then it doesn't transcend. It doesn't get to this true originality. But then there's a deeper level... These are just avatars in a particular headset. So why can't we create a new avatar in our headset that looks like a computer that is actually an avatar of the deep intelligence? If we are only going to stick with the computational thing... But somehow the [human] avatar is a portal into the infinite consciousness... And we know one way of creating new portals into this infinite consciousness, and that is having kids. So that is one technology that allows us to do that. Once we understand spacetime as a headset, and we understand the headset and at least some layers of its relationship to the infinite reality, that's the source of true insight and true originality and creativity, could we figure out new ways to open up genuine new portals, and might that look like AI… The jury is out.”
  • Source: Donald Hoffman, in the YouTube video entitled “Donald Hoffman's New Approach To Consciousness” channel “Dr Brian Keating”. Online at <https://youtu.be/mU_WBela71Y?si=fNfLLsOsUDRDC1XD> posted 2024-08, retrieved 2024-08. In video at 1:14:40.
Keywords: Look_quotes LLM_quotes Large_quotes Language_quotes Model_quotes Future_quotes AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Computation_quotes System_quotes Limit_quotes Gödel(topic)_quotes Minimum_quotes Bet_quotes Avatar_quotes Infinite_quotes True_quotes Source_quotes Creativity_quotes Einstein(topic)_quotes Scientist_quotes Tap_quotes Original_quotes Idea_quotes Bias_quotes Transcend_quotes Deep_quotes Level_quotes Particular_quotes Headset_quotes Create_quotes New_quotes Computer_quotes Actual_quotes Human_quotes Portal_quotes Consciousness_quotes Kid_quotes Technology_quotes Allow_quotes Understand_quotes Spacetime_quotes Relationship_quotes Reality_quotes Figure_quotes Way_quotes Open_quotes Genuine_quotes Jury_quotes

Demystify Consciousness

“Cats can't do calculus and monkeys can't do quantum theory, so why assume that Homo sapiens can demystify consciousness?”
  • Source: Donald Hoffman in his book “The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes”. Published by W. W. Norton, New York, NY, in 2019. ISBN 978-0393254693. Chapter 1, page 33.
Keywords: Cat_quotes Calculus_quotes Mathematics_quotes Monkey_quotes Quantum_quotes Theory_quotes Assume_quotes Homo-Sapiens_quotes Human_quotes Demystify_quotes Consciousness_quotes

Understanding Evolution

“Understanding the evolution of perception is a critical step toward understanding who we are, and the provenance of our consciousness.”
  • Source: Donald Hoffman in his book “The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes”. Published by W. W. Norton, New York, NY, in 2019. ISBN 978-0393254693. Chapter 1, page 39.
Keywords: Understand_quotes Evolution_quotes Perception_quotes Critical_quotes Step_quotes Provenance_quotes Consciousness_quotes Identity_quotes

Douglas_Hofstadter

Strange Consciousness

“My belief is that the explanations of emergent phenomena in our brains — for instance, ideas, hopes, images, analogies, and finally consciousness and free will — are based on a kind of Strange Loop, an interaction between levels in which the top loop reaches back down towards the bottom level and influences it, while at the same time being itself determined by the bottom level. In other words, a self-reinforcing resonance between different levels.”
  • Source: Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1979). Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Written by Douglas R. Hofstadter. Basic Books, New York, NY. ISBN 13: 978-046502656-2. ISBN 10: 046502656-7. Chapter 20. Page 709.
Keywords: Belief_quotes Explanation_quotes Emergent_quotes Phenomena_quotes Brain_quotes Idea_quotes Hope_quotes Image_quotes Analogy_quotes Consciousness_quotes Free_Will_quotes Strange_Loop_quotes Interaction_quotes Level_quotes Loop_quotes Top_quotes Bottom_quotes Influence_quotes Determine_quotes Reinforce_quotes Resonance_quotes Self_quotes Different_quotes

Gerald_Holton

Speculation

“...guided at that moment by a speculation below the level of consciousness, a result of an intimate knowledge... built up during his years of intense study, discussions, and experimentation.”
  • Note: The article is discussing Enrico Fermi's process to solve a physics experimentation problem that came to be known as the “Miricle of the Two Tables”.
Keywords: Guide_quotes Moment_quotes Speculation_quotes Below_quotes Level_quotes Consciousness_quotes Result_quotes Intimate_quotes Knowledge_quotes Built_quotes Year_quotes Intense_quotes Study_quotes Discussion_quotes Experiment_quotes Intuition_quotes

Aldous_Huxley

Time Tyrant

“Time is our tyrant. We are chronically aware of the moving minute hand, even of the moving second hand. We have to be. There are trains to be caught, clocks to be punched, tasks to be done in specified periods, records to be broken by fractions of a second, machines that set the pace and have to be kept up with. Our consciousness of the smallest units of time is now acute. To us, for example, the moment 8.17 a.m. means something — something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance — did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.”
  • Source: Aldous Huxley (1936). An essay entitled Time and the Machine within the book The Olive Tree and Other Essays, published by Harper and Brothers, ASIN: B08VNTBLY4.
Keywords: Time_quotes Tyrant_quotes Chronic_quotes Aware_quotes Hand_quotes Train_quotes Clock_quotes Task_quotes Period_quotes Record_quotes Fraction_quotes Machine_quotes Pace_quotes Consciousness_quotes Unit_quotes Acute_quotes Start_quotes Daily_quotes Ancestor_quotes Eccentric_quotes Instant_quotes Significance_quotes Existence_quotes Invention_quotes Locomotive_quotes Watt_quotes Stevenson_quotes

Thomas_Henry_Huxley

Consciousness

“How is it that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djinn, when Aladdin rubbed his lamp.”
  • Source: Thomas Henry Huxley in the book “The Elements of Physiology and Hygiene: A Textbook for Educational Institutions”, published in 1869 by Appleton, New York, NY. Page 178.
Keywords: Anything_quotes Remarkable_quotes State_quotes Consciousness_quotes Result_quotes Irritate_quotes Nervous_quotes Tissue_quotes Unaccountable_quotes Appear_quotes Djinn_quotes Aladdin_quotes Rub_quotes Lamp_quotes

William_James

Simple Sensation

“No one ever had a simple sensation by itself. Consciousness, from our natal day, is of a teeming multiplicity of objects and relations, and what we call simple sensations are results of discriminative attention, pushed often to a very high degree.”
  • Source: William James (1890). From the book "The Principles of Psychology". Volume I. Chapter 9. Published in 1980 by Henry Holy, New York, NY.
Keywords: One_quotes Simple_quotes Sensation_quotes Itself_quotes Consciousness_quotes Natal_quotes Day_quotes Teeming_quotes Multiplicity_quotes Object_quotes Relationship_quotes Call_quotes Result_quotes Discriminative_quotes Attention_quotes Push_quotes Often_quotes High_quotes Degree_quotes

Carl_Jung

Insoluble Problems

“I always worked with the temperamental conviction that fundamentally there are no insoluble problems, and experience justified me in so far as I have often seen individuals simply outgrow a problem which had destroyed others. This ‘outgrowing’, as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person's horizon, and through this widening of his view the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency. It was not repressed and made unconscious, but merely appeared in a different light, and so did indeed become different. What, on a lower level, had led to the wildest conflicts and to panicky outbursts of emotion, viewed from the higher level of the personality, now seemed like a storm in the valley seen from a high mountain-top. This does not mean that the thunderstorm is robbed of its reality, but instead of being in it, one is now above it. However, since we are both valley and mountain with respect to the psyche, it might seem a vain illusion to feel oneself beyond what is human. One certainly does feel the affect and is shaken and tormented by it, yet at the same time one is aware of a higher consciousness, which prevents one from becoming identical with the affect, a consciousness which takes the affect objectively, and can say, Ί know that I suffer'.”
Keywords: Conviction_quotes Insoluble_quotes Problem_quotes Experience_quotes Justification_quotes Individual_quotes Growth_quotes Destruction_quotes Consciousness_quotes Interest_quotes Horizon_quotes View_quotes Urgent_quotes Solution_quotes Logic_quotes Life_quotes Repression_quotes Unconscious_quotes Light_quotes Differences_quotes Level_quotes Conflict_quotes Wild_quotes Panic_quotes Emotion_quotes Personality_quotes Storm_quotes Valley_quotes Mountain_quotes Reality_quotes Objectivity_quotes Illusion_quotes Humanity_quotes Torment_quotes Identical_quotes Suffering_quotes

Dream

“The dream occurs when consciousness and will are to a great extent extinguished.”
  • Source: From the book “Psychology and Religion”. Written by Carl Jung. Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut. Published 1977. Page 31.
Keywords: Dream_quotes Occur_quotes Consciousness_quotes Will_quotes Extinguish_quotes

Bernardo_Kastrup

Unconscious

“The unconscious can be divided into two segments: the personal unconscious — which, like consciousness, is bound to a particular individual — and the collective unconscious.”
  • Source: From “Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe”. Written by Bernardo Kastrup. Published by IFF Books, Washington DC. Kindle Edition. Page 33. Chapter 3.
Keywords: Unconscious_quotes Divide_quotes Segment_quotes Consciousness_quotes Bind_quotes Individual_quotes Collective_quotes

Cosmic Mind

“He [Jung] is extrapolating the natural basis for cognitive associations in the psyche to a universal basis for the organization of all events in nature. He seems to regard the whole universe as a supraordinate cosmic mind — a ‘greater and more comprehensive consciousness’ — operating on the principle of association by similarity, just as the human psyche does.”
  • Source: From “Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe”. Written by Bernardo Kastrup. Published by IFF Books, Washington DC. Kindle Edition. Page 69-70. Chapter 4.
Keywords: Extrapolate_quotes Natural_quotes Basis_quotes Cognitive_quotes Association_quotes Psyche_quotes Universal_quotes Organization_quotes Event_quotes Universe_quotes Supraordinate_quotes Cosmic_quotes Mind_quotes Great_quotes Comprehensive_quotes Consciousness_quotes Operate_quotes Principle_quotes Similarity_quotes Human_quotes Jung(topic)_quotes

David_Kipping

You Are Sentient

“Whether you're a piece of computer code or real. Simulacra or physical. Conscious entities are conscious all the same. You are self-aware. You are sentient.”
  • Source: David Kipping from the YouTube “Why You're Probably Not a Simulation”, posted 2020-09-04 in the channel ‘Cool Worlds’. Video offset 32:48. Online at https://youtu.be/HA5YuwvJkpQ (2025).
Keywords: Simulation_quotes Piece_quotes Code_quotes Real_quotes Simulacra_quotes Physical_quotes Consciousness_quotes Entity_quotes Same_quotes Self_quotes Aware_quotes Sentient_quotes

Robert_Lawrence_Kuhn

Scientific Method Limits

“Every theory that is dualist, panpsychist or idealist agrees that we can study the biological facets of consciousness by studying the brain – but they all claim this will never lead to a complete understanding. In other words, there are limits to how far the scientific method can take us.”
Keywords: Scientific_Method_quotes Theory_quotes Dualism_quotes Panpsychism_quotes Idealism_quotes Agree_quotes Study_quotes Biology_quotes Facet_quotes Consciousness_quotes Brain_quotes Claim_quotes Never_quotes Lead_quotes Complete_quotes Understand_quotes Limit_quotes

Pim_van_Lommel

Materialist Science

“In materialist science, only that is true that you can objectify, what you can measure, what you can duplicate, or what you can falsify. Then it is true. Now what you feel and what you think, your consciousness, you cannot objectify, you cannot duplicate, you cannot measure, and you cannot falsify. Consciousness, the essence of who you are, what you feel, what you think, is beyond our current materialist science. So, they call it an illusion. But it is the essence of who we are. We have to expand science into post-materialist science. We have to change the paradigm to include subjective experiences... Science should include subjective experiences into the scientific method... The materialist aspect of science is still important, but it's not enough... This is a totally different approach when you realize that everything has its subjective aspects.”
  • Source: Words from Pim van Lommel in a video interview. From the YouTube video “Consciousness beyond death, with Dr. Pim van Lommel” on the Essentia Foundation channel. Posted 2023-07-23. Online at https://youtu.be/NVsBFOB7H44. Offset 46:19.
Keywords: Science_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes Materialism_quotes Truth_quotes Objective_quotes Measurement_quotes Duplicate_quotes Falsification_quotes Feel_quotes Think_quotes Consciousness_quotes Essence_quotes Beyond_quotes Illusion_quotes Call_quotes Expand_quotes Post-materialist_quotes Aspect_quotes Important_quotes Change_quotes Paradigm_quotes Subjective_quotes Experience_quotes Enough_quotes Different_quotes Approach_quotes Realize_quotes Everything_quotes

Peter_Medawar

Scientific Method

"The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said — has been said — that there is a distinctive methodology of science which scientists practice unwittingly, like the chap in Moliere who found that all his life, unknowingly, he had been speaking prose.”
  • Source: Sir Peter B. Medawar, Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought (1969), 9.
Keywords: Fact_quotes Science_quotes Consciousness_quotes Practice_quotes Formal_quotes Methodology_quotes Poor_quotes Evidence_quotes Distinct_quotes Unwitting_quotes Unintentional_quotes Unknown_quotes Speak_quotes Prose_quotes Exist_quotes Chap_quotes Moliere(topic)_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes

Steven_Pinker

Stipulation

“But the last dollop in the theory — that it subjectively feels like something to be such circuitry — may have to be stipulated as a fact about reality where explanation stops.”
  • Source: Steven Pinker in the book Enlightenment Now. Published in 2018 by Penguin Random House, New York, NY. ISBN:978-0525559023. Chapter 23.
  • Notes: Part of the Stipulation Problem of Consciousness.
Keywords: Last_quotes Dollop_quotes Theory_quotes Subjective_quotes Feel_quotes Circuit_quotes Stipulate_quotes Fact_quotes Reality_quotes Explanation_quotes Stop_quotes Consciousness_quotes

Rupert_Sheldrake

Empirical Approach

“Science needs to be liberated from these constrictive dogmas of mechanistic materialism... If we go beyond those dogmas, science gets much more interesting. All sorts of new research become possible. New questions can be asked. We can find out more about nature and more about consciousness by doing science in a new more open way. But what remains part of science so crucial to it is the empirical approach. The putting forward of hypotheses, the critical discussion, and the testing of hypotheses by experiment, the scientific method.”
  • Source: Rupert Sheldrake. The video “Nature's Hidden Intelligence: Morphic Fields”. Online at https://youtu.be/qrIlWrGe4w4?t=4894. Posted 2025-01-03. Video offset 1:21:34.
Keywords: Need_quotes Liberate_quotes Constrict_quotes Dogma_quotes Mechanistic_quotes Materialism_quotes Interesting_quotes New_quotes Research_quotes Possible_quotes Question_quotes Ask_quotes Find_quotes Nature_quotes Consciousness_quotes Do_quotes Open_quotes Way_quotes Remain_quotes Part_quotes Science_quotes Crucial_quotes Empirical_quotes Approach_quotes Hypothesis_quotes Critical_quotes Discussion_quotes Test_quotes Experiment_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes Method_quotes

Baruch_Spinoza

Free Will Belief

“Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.”
Keywords: Free_Will_quotes Belief_quotes Causality_quotes Consciousness_quotes Men_quotes Believe_quotes Free_quotes Action_quotes Unconscious_quotes Determine_quotes

Anthony_Standen

True Conclusions

“But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ...not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ...they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true ...Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call 'unscientific,' using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.”
  • Source: Anthony Standen, In Science is a Sacred Cow (1950), 176-77.
Keywords: Theory_quotes Physicist_quotes Realization_quotes Conclusion_quotes Certainty_quotes True_quotes Sink_quotes Consciousness_quotes Time_quotes Act_quotes Science_quotes Indisputable_quotes Information_quotes Obtain_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes Unscientific_quotes Word_quotes Smear_quotes Connotation_quotes Original_quotes Meaning_quotes Imply_quotes False_quotes Phony_quotes Method_quotes

Alan_Turing

Consciousness

“I do not wish to give the impression that I think there is no mystery about consciousness. There is, for instance, something of a paradox connected with any attempt to localize it.”
  • Source: From the paper entitled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing. Published in 1950 in “Mind”, volume 49, number 236.
Keywords: Wish_quotes Give_quotes Impression_quotes Think_quotes Mystery_quotes Consciousness_quotes Paradox_quotes Connect_quotes Attempt_quotes Localize_quotes

Gerald_Weinberg

Correct Models

“Such models need not be correct; in fact, one does not so much ask whether or not the model is correct as whether it adequately or inadequately fulfills its purpose. When we travel to work, we unconsciously use a flat-Earth model of the terrain, as we think most people do on their ordinary journeys.”
  • Source: Weinberg, Gerald (2011-06-03). Passive Regulation: General Systems Design Principles (General Systems Thinking) (Kindle Locations 2186-2188). Weinberg & Weinberg. Kindle Edition.
Keywords: Model_quotes Correctness_quotes Adequate_quotes Inadequate_quotes Purpose_quotes Travel_quotes Earth_quotes Consciousness_quotes Work_quotes Unconscious_quotes Flat_quotes Terrain_quotes Think_quotes People_quotes Ordinary_quotes Journey_quotes
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