January 2010
8 posts
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“ “The conscious self…that’s what we call consciousness today....”
– Thomas Metzinger - You are not a self! Bodies, brains and the nature of consciousness | ABC
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“Thomas Metzinger on brain and the nature of consciousness
“It’s...”
– Thomas Metzinger, German philosopher, department of philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, You are not a self! Bodies, brains and the nature of consciousness | ABC See also: ☞ Thomas Metzinger on dreams
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“ “The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An...”
– Aristotle, Metaphysics (translated by W. D. Ross) (tnx mxmlsm)
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“ “You imagine that what you can’t understand is either spiritual or does...”
– Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist and duelist (1619-1655) (tnx nihilnoetia)
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“ “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ”
– Aristotle, Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great (384 BC – 322 BC)
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“George Ivanovitch (G. I.) Gurdjieff on true
“True, this is not always so....”
– George Ivanovitch (G. I.) Gurdjieff in Views from the Real World: Early Talks in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York and Chicago as recollected by his pupils, New York: Dutton, 1975, p. 43. cit via Entersection: George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff on self-inquiry and microcosmos
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“ “The global brain is the quasi-neural energy - and information -...”
– Ervin László cited in Kingsley Dennis, Collective Intelligence: The Need for Synthesis
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“ “New technologies beget new perceptions. Reality is a man-made process....”
– By the Late John Brockman (1969), taking information theory — the mathematical theory of communications — as a model for regarding all human experience cited in How is the Internet Changing the Way We Think? | Edge 