God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?
Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.
How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.
Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble!
I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.
To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.