Alva Noe Quotes

#1. 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 interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments.

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#2. 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 skills we've cultivated. As with a painting in a gallery, the world has no meaning-no presence to be experienced-apart from our ability to engagement with it.

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

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#4. Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Help along one another's projects and plans.

Abdu'l- Baha

#6. Consciousness is something we do.

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#7. You couldn't forget [Pablo] Picasso, [Henri] Matisse and [Joan] Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.

Frank Stella

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

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#9. 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 to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.

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

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#11. All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ.

Stephen Colbert

#12. Colors are things we experience.

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#13. Perhaps when the next Great War comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

George Orwell

#14. I'm the biggest nerd you'd want to meet. There are bigger, but you don't want to meet them.

Mark Rude

#15. The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.

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#16. My wife's gotten really lazy, or as she calls it, 'pregnant.'

Jim Gaffigan

#17. I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.

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#18. It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Alva Noe