Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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 over and in a way made up out of the world and processes around us then we can explain certain questions that we otherwise cannot explain and moreover we discover that we are not aliens in a strange world.

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Colors are things we experience.

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Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

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I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.

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Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

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Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

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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…

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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…

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You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.

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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…

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