Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occup… - Thomas Nagel
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occup…
- Thomas Nagel
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. - Thomas Nagel
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself. - Thomas Nagel
Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of … - Thomas Nagel
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of …
If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and… - Thomas Nagel
If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and…
What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat? - Thomas Nagel
What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?
Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up. - Thomas Nagel
Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. - Thomas Nagel
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
We are an episode between two oblivions. - Thomas Nagel
We are an episode between two oblivions.
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