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Memory is fallible, of course, but not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.
Daniel Levitin • The Organized Mind
je restais lucide en dépit des troubles mentaux qui me handicapaient. Notre conscience résulte du fonctionnement simultané d'un certain nombre de « programmes »
Jill Bolte Taylor • Voyage au-delà de mon cerveau (Essais et documents) (French Edition)
psycholinguist Paul Bloom
Geoffrey K. Pullum • Linguistics: Why It Matters
One of the main functions of System 2 is to monitor and control thoughts and actions “suggested” by System 1, allowing some to be expressed directly in behavior and suppressing or modifying others.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
consciousness does not depend on outward behavior,
Anil Seth • Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Another logically impossible experience is unconsciousness,
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
For Brentano, this reaching towards objects is what our minds do all the time. Our thoughts are invariably of or about something, he wrote: in love, something is loved, in hatred, something is hated, in judgement, something is affirmed or denied. Even when I imagine an object that isn’t there, my mental structure is still one of ‘about-ness’ or ‘of
... See moreSarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
ali defines consciousness as the ability to use language to discern between pleasure and pain