Socraticgadfly

“Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon; it is what consciousness is _about_ that is complex. It is presumably this fact that is the reason many scientists over the decades have tended to perceive information as something involving order and organization. Because consciousness is about an experience of order and organization. Because consciousness is a state that does not process much information - consciously. Consciousness consists of information no more than a person who consumes large amounts of food can be said to consist of food. Consciousness is nourished by information the same way the body is nourished by food. But human beings do not consist of hot dogs; they consist of hot dogs that have been eaten. Consciousness does not consist of hots dogs but consists of hot dogs that have been apprehended. That is far less complex.”
― Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

“We typically have a bias that tells us we are less susceptible to bias than everyone else.”
― Will Storr, The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

“Nobody believes in God like an atheist: 'There is no God, and I am His prophet.”
― Alan W. Watts, Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: By Ralph Waldo Emerson