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

- Alva Noe

Colors are things we experience.

- Alva Noe

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

- Alva Noe

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

- Alva Noe

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

- Alva Noe

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 …

- Alva Noe

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…

- Alva Noe

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

- Alva Noe

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…

- Alva Noe