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Ross McPherson
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Trying to define conscious experience in terms of more primitive notions is fruitless. One might as well try to define matter or space in terms of something more fundamental.
“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
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“I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.”
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“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
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“The philosopher kills himself with thinking. Let him run on; his back is turned to the treasure. Most of those destined for Paradise are simpletons, so that they escape from the mischief of philosophy”
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“God himself does not know what he is, because he is not any what”
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