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What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.
The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.
The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.
Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.
Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.
The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.