“Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.”
― The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
― The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
“Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence”
― The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
― The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
“I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.”
― A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
― A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.
—Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995”
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
—Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995”
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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