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"And not only that, if you take active inference seriously and still wanna deploy a Cartesian skepticism argument, you'll have to grant that the very environment which the active PP-agent exploits is something besides the brain doing its guessing, something Matrix-style." — 17 hours, 3 min ago
"And not only that, if you take active inference seriously and still wanna deploy a Cartesian skepticism argument, you'll have to grant that the very environment which the active PP-agent exploits is something besides the brain doing its guessing, something Matrix-style." — 17 hours, 3 min ago
“Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.”
― Consciousness Explained
― Consciousness Explained
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”
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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― To Jerusalem and Back
― To Jerusalem and Back
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