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“It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.”

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David Chalmers is a renowned philosopher known for his research in cognitive science and philosophy. His work focuses on consciousness, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, particularly in exploring the nature and philosophical questions of consciousness. more

“The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth... because they live on in a 'second neural home'?... In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them... Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain... a collective corona that still glows.”

Feels Humans Persons Has Beens Stills Matter Home Earth Human Beings Brain Keys Primaries Collectives Brighter Afterglow

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“Irrationality is the square root of all evil.”

Evil Roots Squares Irrationality Square Roots

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.”

Facts Effects Essence

Book:Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern

Source: Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern

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