Birth: 1964
Perceiving how things are is a mode of exploring how things appear. How they appear is, however, an aspect of how they are. To explore appearance is ….
Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do..
Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do..
Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us..
Colors are things we experience..
If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact that we are ourselves dependent on and distributed….
The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which….
One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machine….
The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what knowledge and skills we've cultivated. As with….
I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes..
Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe..
You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color..