Shea Levy

“But, actually, an affordance is neither an objective property nor a subjective property; or it is both if you like. An affordance cuts across the dichotomy of subjective-objective and helps us to understand its inadequacy. It is equally a fact of the environment and a fact of behavior. It is both physical and psychical, yet neither. An affordance points both ways, to the environment and to the observer.”
― James J. Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

“What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.”
― Jeff Hawkins

“History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century