Sublime

However religiously “emancipated,” the technological mind shows that it has inherited the same division against itself when it tries to subject the whole human order to the control of conscious reason. It forgets that reason cannot be trusted if the brain cannot be trusted, since the power of reason depends upon organs that were grown by “unconscio

J’ai commencé ce livre par la question rhétorique de Disraeli : « L’Homme est-il un singe ou un ange ? »

The self, as the implied hub of cognition, perception, emotion, and behavior, can remain stable across even wholesale changes in the contents of consciousness

I count myself among a growing number of scientists who believe that the construction of self identity is not much better than the Lo-fi representations of other people we hold in our heads.

THERE ARE NO SILVER BULLETS.

Scientific revolutions tend to emerge not from a sudden discovery but by asking better questions

Comprehension is not the source of competence or the active ingredient in competence; comprehension is composed of competences.