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“A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.”
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“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
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“If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.”
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“In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.”
― Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
― Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
“Contrary to common sense there is no unique "real world" that pre-exists and is independent of human mental activity and human symbolic language; that which we call the world is a product of some mind whose symbolic procedures construct the world.”
― Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
― Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Robert’s 2024 Year in Books
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