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It turns out that all the “magic” of cognition depends, just as life itself does, on cycles within cycles of recurrent, “re-entrant,” reflexive information-transformation processes ranging from the nano-scale biochemical cycles within each neuron, through the generate-and-test cycles of predictive coding in the perceptual systems (see Clark, 2013,
... See moreDaniel C. Dennett • Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
Richard • From fragments you can build a greater whole
People feel (or presume) an authorship of their thoughts and actions that is illusory.
Sam Harris • Free Will
You prepare to recognize the unmistakable tone of the author. No. You don’t recognize it at all. But now that you think about it, who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book to the next. And in these very changes you recognize him as himself. Here, however, he seems
... See moreItalo Calvino • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy)
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Shannon liked games and puzzles. Secret codes entranced him, beginning when he was a boy reading Edgar Allan Poe. He gathered threads like a magpie.
James Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Douglas Adams • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Illustrated Edition
