Murray Shanahan Quote

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.

The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day...

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure o...

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

We do not perceive what is "out ther," rather we perceive what is "in here." Our senses can only inform us of their own status. They can inform us of the elesctrical status of neurons or the physical...

Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is,...

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs.