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Alva Noe

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Alva Noe is a prominent philosopher known for his work on perception, cognition, and neuroscience. His research spans the interdisciplinary field between philosophy and science, particularly focusing on the relationship between body and mind. Born in 1964, Noe has published numerous academic papers and held teaching positions at several academic institutions.

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“Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.”

Thinking World Feels Facts Shows Consciousness

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“The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.”

Knows World Needs Kind Persons Helping Body Individual Skills Resources Burden Access

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“Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.”

Trying Reason Play Safe Conservative

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“I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.”

Thinking Humans Human Beings Conscious

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“Colors are things we experience.”

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“You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.”

World Bits Color

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“If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact that we are ourselves dependent on and distributed over and in a way made up out of the world and processes around us then we can explain certain questions that we otherwise cannot explain and moreover we discover that we are not aliens in a strange world.”

People Ifs World Way Made Facts Certain Asks Process Strange Aliens Dependent Strange World

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“One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.”

Reason Havens Possibility Smart Machines Worried Artificial Intelligence Artificial Smarter Pseudo Synthetic

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“Perceiving how things are is a mode of exploring how things appear. How they appear is, however, an aspect of how they are. To explore appearance is thus to explore the environment, the world. To discover how things are, from how they appear, is to discover an order or pattern in their appearance. The process of perceiving, of finding out how things are, is a process of meeting the world; it is an activity of skillful exploration.”

World Order Process Environment Activity Findings Aspect Meetings Patterns Appearance Exploration Exploring Skillful

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“The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what knowledge and skills we've cultivated. As with a painting in a gallery, the world has no meaning-no presence to be experienced-apart from our ability to engagement with it.”

World Shows Ability Painting Skills Engagement Gallery

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“Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.”

Mind Philosophy Body Consciousness Psychology Medicine Senses Soma

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“Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.”

Mind Philosophy Body Happens Psychology Perception Medicine Senses Soma

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Born: 1964
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