Michele Pasin / Quotes

Why the apple stays red

However, an apple still looks red at the beach on a sunny day, and at your desk in your office on a rainy day. There is about a hundred times more light hitting your eye at the beach than in your office—yet the apple is still red. The redness of the apple is entirely constructed subjectively in your brain. It is, however, very useful to be able to distinguish things based…

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#perception #subjective-experience #brain

Karl popper's three worlds of knowledge

World 1: There is, first, the world that consists of physical bodies: of stones and of stars; of plants and of animals; but also of radiation, and of other…

Functional And Physical Objects - The Big Picture #psychological-state #human-mind #subjective-experience #perception #words

Mary has never seen red

A similar argument was advanced by the Australian philosopher, Frank Jackson.2 Jackson imagines a neuro-biologist, Mary, who knows all there is to know about…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #perception #subjective-experience #knowledge #materialism

The systematic elusiveness of I

We do not observe the self in the same way that we observe the yellowness of a tulip, the smell of coffee or the thought that I really must book my train. The…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #consciousness #subjective-experience #perception

Neural correlates are not experiences

The second truth is that whatever thoughts and feelings are, they are not straightforwardly physical. You can’t see a memory under a microscope, and an…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #consciousness #brain #subjective-experience #neuroscience

Fetuses turn to the outside world in late pregnancy

So the questions for prying parents become: What do fetuses know, and when do they know it? When is your baby capable of sensing, say, taps on your belly? The…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #brain #babies #development #perception

I am everything I behold

“People may sense internal organs and physiological processes usually kept out of consciousness.” That was exactly what had just happened to me when I felt I…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #perception #brain #consciousness #soul #nondualism