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the subjective experience of being a conscious agent—for a conceptual understanding of ourselves as persons.
Sam Harris • Free Will
Bennett Gilbert • On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays
The ability to use one’s own understanding is a challenge, not a given. Luhmann
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
But intuition is not the opposition to rationality and knowledge, it is rather the incorporated, practical side of our intellectual endeavours, the sedimented experience on which we build our conscious, explicit knowledge (cf. Ahrens 2014).
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
Whereas the event perspective is that which is known, the mind perspective refers to the knower itself.
Dustin DiPerna • Streams of Wisdom: An Advanced Guide to Integral Spiritual Development (Integral Religion and Spirituality Book 1)
it boils down to searching, among myriad possible settings of the internal model, for those that best correspond to the state of the external world.
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
Perception is not a passive outside-in process—in which information is extracted from impressions on our sensory epithelia from “out there.” It is a constructive inside-out process—in which sensations are used to confirm or disconfirm hypotheses about how they were generated (MacKay 1956, Gregory 1980, Yuille and Kersten 2006, Neisser 2014, A.
... See moreGiovanni Pezzulo • Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
what matters here is the existence of a broader, intuitive part of mind underlying the ego. From this point on, I will call it the ‘obfuscated mind.’
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
if you believe in computational functionalism, then a sufficiently accurate simulation of your connectome will be conscious (whether it will be your mind, let alone a sane rather than a mad mind, is a different matter). If you believe that consciousness is a structure of causal relationships, an essential aspect of reality tied to its physical
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