“I'm naturally a personable person. I feel like figuring out ways to have my personality shine through outside of just a three minute song helped. I have layers, there are many different sides to Torae.” WayFeelsPersonsDifferentSongThreeSidesMinutesPersonalityShiningLayersDifferent Sides Author:Torae
“Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.” WritingWantedLinesActingRhyme Author:Torae
“If you can stand on stage and perform a record, you should be able to stand on stage and captivate the audience without the rhyme. You should be a master of ceremonies.” IfsShouldAbleAudienceRecordsStageMastersRhymeCeremonyMaster Ceremony Author:Torae
“I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.” FirstsFundamentals Author:Thomas Metzinger
“Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual clarity, and perceived the not-so-revolutionary self-importance in the epigones of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas.” SelfSchoolCoursesSawsImportancePhilosopherClarityRevolutionaryRepresentingSelf-importanceFrankfurt Author:Thomas Metzinger
“At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.” IfsRealityWantedPoliticalHonestPositionTearsSmellGas Author:Thomas Metzinger
“As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.” HelpingTheoryDisciplinePhilosopherExplainingConstraints Author:Thomas Metzinger
“Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.” WellsCharacterBrainConsciousPropertyAffairDeterminedFixedInternalsSubjectiveInternal Affairs Author:Thomas Metzinger
“Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.” SelfMovementFlowBubblesSubjectiveTunnelsPhenomenalEmbedded Author:Thomas Metzinger
“One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself.” WorldInterestingBrainEgoModelsDirectOneselfPhilosopherContactCharacteristicsInternalsRealisticTunnelsRobustFinnish Author:Thomas Metzinger
