Philosophy Of Mind Quotes

“Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.
Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.”
― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

“…every feeling is the perception of a truth...”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
― Epictetus

“The best piece of wisdom I can give you - never completely trust anyone besides yourself!”
― Bohdi Sanders, Defensive Living: The Other Side of Self-Defense

“Don't ever get to the point where you feel like you know it all. Life still has so much more to teach you.”
― Germany Kent

“The intolerance of uncertainty and ignorance flows not only from
pridefulness, but from a universal human desire to find meanings and patterns
everywhere. The mind abhors a vacuum.”
― Jon Elster, Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

“Positive arguments for the natural possibility of absent qualia have not been as prevalent as arguments for inverted qualia, but they have been made. The most detailed presentation of these arguments is given by Block (1978).

These arguments almost always have the same form. They consist in the exhibition of a realization of our functional organization in some unusual medium, combined with an appeal to intuition. It is pointed out, for example, that the organization of our brain might be simulated by the people of China or even mirrored in the economy of Bolivia. If we got every person in China to simulate a neuron (we would need to multiply the population by ten or one hundred, but no matter), and equipped them with radio links to simulate synaptic connections, then the functional organization would be there. But surely, says the argument, this baroque system would not be conscious!

There is a certain intuitive force to this argument. Many people have a strong feeling that a system like this is simply the wrong sort of thing to have a conscious experience. Such a “group mind” would seem to be the stuff of a science-fiction tale, rather than the kind of thing that could really exist. But there is only an intuitive force. This certainly falls far short of a knockdown argument. Many have pointed out that while it may be intuitively implausible that such a system should give rise to experience, it is equally intuitively implausible that a brain should give rise to experience! Whoever would have thought that this hunk of gray matter would be the sort of thing that could produce vivid subjective experiences? And yet it does. Of course this does not show that a nation's population could produce a mind, but it is a strong counter to the intuitive argument that it would not.
.
.
.
Once we realize how tightly a specification of functional organization constrains the structure of a system, it becomes less implausible that even the population of China could support conscious experience if organized appropriately. If we take our image of the population, speed it up by a factor of a million or so, and shrink it into an area the size of a head, we are left with something that looks a lot like a brain, except that it has homunculi—tiny people—where a brain would have neurons. On the face of it, there is not much reason to suppose that neurons should do any better a job than homunculi in supporting experience.”
― David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory

“Cognitively, grasp of just one concept is the sound of one hand clapping.”
― Robert B. Brandom, Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism

“Philosophy of mind is the background to moral philosophy; and insofar as modern ethics tends to constitute a sort of Newspeak which makes certain values non-expressible, the reasons for this are to be sought in current philosophy of mind and in the fascinating power of a certain picture of the soul. One suspects that philosophy of mind has not in fact been performing the task … of sorting and classifying fundamental moral issues; it has rather been imposing upon us a particular value judgement in the guise of a theory of human nature.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good

“The intolerance of uncertainty and ignorance flows not only from pridefulness, but from a universal human desire to find meanings and patterns everywhere. The mind abhors a vacuum.”
― Jon Elster, Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

“It's easy, ever so much easier, to die of one's inner conflicts than to live with them.”
― Albert Camus, Caligula and Three Other Plays

“Denken ist eine Funktion des Gehirns wie Gehen eine Funktion der Beine. Sowenig nun die Anatomie der Beine mit der Frage: was heißt gehen, sowenig hat die Anatomie des Gehirns mit der Frage zu tun, was heißt Denken.”
― Joseph Dietzgen

“Wir machen Ernst mit der Sache, wir wissen von keiner höheren Erkenntnis als von der gewöhnlichen, menschlichen, wissen positiv, daß unser Verstand wahrhaft Verstand heißt und es so wenig einen wesentlich anderen Verstand wie viereckige Kreise geben kann.”
― Joseph Dietzgen, Das Wesen der menschlichen Kopfarbeit und andere Schriften

“The story of random number generation is itself quite a fascinating one, and would be an entire article in itself.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

“All our lives are the same, braided together on the same surface, figuratively speaking. Not to make too fine a point of it and get nutty, but our lives are like a Möbius strip, an endless loop with no back or front, a strip with a twist in it joined end-to-end so that no matter where we are on it, only half is visible. We know instinctively that other lives we cannot see are hidden on the same surface at the same time—not underneath or on the other side.”
― Geoffrey Wells

“For the real virus that spreads, are of the mindsets of the unwilling who refuse to cut the cords that play us.”
― Devon Hewett , GOD IN THE GARDEN: a collection of poetry written beyond the surface

“Perhaps, then, observes Hegel, there is an open vista for thought such that human intelligence can, in principle, override all of its self-imposed limits. If so, the argument goes, then there is hope that it may be able to conceptually assimilate all of reality.”
― Micheal Allen Fox

“All you have to do to impress someone is love them, because it will make you do things which will make them fall for you automatically.”
― Wrushank Sorte

“In play, rule becomes affect”
― Lev Vygotsky

“Das Universum kann uns den richtigen Weg nur zuflüstern. Das bedeutet jedoch, dass wir auch zuhören müssen. Manchmal, ja manchmal, genau dann, wenn es sich richtig anfühlt, ja dann muss man die Ungewissheit zulassen.”
― Spencer Hill, Krieg zwischen den Welten - Das zweite Gesicht

“If time is a web then it is a series of straight and crooked lines, but it is also a spiral with many gaps in between.”
― -Kalen Doleman

“True wisdom is found in quiet moments, when you listen to the secrets of your heart and the universe”
― Hossain Al Muntasir

“Representation is a process of informational triangulation. Its aim is the specification of distal stimuli. It achieves that aim by corralling the output of multiple information channels integrated at their point of confluence. The integration process, in short, disambiguates individual information channels via the mutual constraints each channel provides others. The specificity won thereby falls on a continuum from the highly unspecific (simple transducers, little integrative depth) to the highly specific (subtle transducers, manifold integration).”
― Dan Lloyd, Simple Minds

“Eat always much fiber each morning. According to ancient Roman army was proven that regularly eating of fiber leads to building stamina and to vitality. So that´s why Roman army was always in the best condition at fight with enemy.”
― Angela L.E. Komorovska, How to Get Perfect Fitness Body in 21st Century: Your Daily Fitness Guide

“Conceptual thinking is not by accident that which is communicated to others, any more than the decision to move a chess piece is by accident that which finds an expression in a move on a board between two people.”
― Wilfrid Sellars, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

“Treasure your mind, you access it every day.”
― Zinny Ekechukwu

“As real as your imagination, and as close as your dream. Believe in it, that which can be imagined can be achieved.”
― Zinny Ekechukwu

“A worrisome mind is a fearful heart.
When you listen to the voice of fear, you will never climb a hill.”
― Zinny Ekechukwu

“The slanting rays of the autumn sun,
the coldness of spring water,
the towering trees,
the birds,
the aquatic creatures,
the reptiles, and the flow of life!
In a moment,
I surrendered myself
to the icy water that burned to the bone!
I loved the cold, but feared it at the same time.
When the air is cold,
when your being is frozen,
you will experience a kind of coma that enforces justice.
When in life,
pleasure has been withheld from you,
the cold also takes away the joy of expressing your pain.
I looked at the sky,
my wandering mind and free spirit
fled to the Arctic and Antarctic!
It’s cold and frozen there too.
Always cold, and sometimes dark for long periods!
I wanted to surrender my whole being to the frost,
to let complete suppression and endless cold
dominate me!
I was overwhelmed.
If awareness is a match,
then doctrines, religions, every group, sect, country, and ideology,
are other matches to ignite hell for you!
Awareness, spirituality, humanity, or simply put, absolute perfection and beauty,
I imagine as being seven layers deep in hell,
while compounded ignorance feels like a clear and moderate sky.
The middle ground wasn’t for me,
so I found the only solution
was to seal hell and bury it
under thousands upon thousands of icy stones!
At that moment, as my body shivered in the spring water,
my soul hovered around the Arctic and Antarctic.
Ah, another spark,
another thought of winter creeping into my mind!
My mind said, the Arctic and Antarctic, over time,
through the sun’s rays or human filth, will eventually fall and melt,
what if someone arrives with unconditional love
and pulls you back to that same hell?
I was tired of empty words and impossible thoughts, but my mind was right!
I remembered the sky,
the sky always holds an answer!
Mars!
That was it,
Mars!
Mars,
which billions of years ago was a cradle of life!
What did it do?
It lost its atmosphere due to its cold core,
and the sun’s kindness wiped life away into space.
The remaining water froze somewhere inside it,
and never flowed again.
Oh, my Mars,
you are my role model.
First, I must destroy awareness and render it useless,
then I’ll seek out love to cleanse what remains of my emotions and let it go.
But Mars,
what should I do with the flowing waters of love
that will freeze inside me?
What if one day a madman from nowhere comes and gets the idea
to revive me, seeking refuge in me?
#Arash_Ghadir #ArashGhadir”
― Arash_Ghadir

“[...] For those who think (create), reality has no mysteries. The underlying notion of reality is a creative process attributable to the Absolute, going to transform the immutability characteristic of identity into a "dynamic" concept". For Bergson, "existence is the victory over nothing", while the non-being, according to logic, is not, by its very definition. Perhaps, the priority of humankind shall be understanding thoroughly the idea of nothing, in order to properly define the borders and limits of being.”
― Vincent Bozzino, Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide