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 thus to explore the environment, the world. To discover how things are, from how they appear, is to discover an order or pattern in their appearance. The process of perceiving, of finding out how things are, is a process of meeting the world; it is an activity of skillful exploration.
Colors are things we experience. - Alva Noe
Colors are things we experience.
- Alva Noe
Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do. - Alva Noe
Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.
I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes. - Alva Noe
I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.
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
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…
Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do. - Alva Noe
Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.
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
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 …
Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us. - Alva Noe
Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.
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… - Alva Noe
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…
Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe. - Alva Noe
Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.
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