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“The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious.... Does it have feelings?”

Doe Feelings Issues Rights Keys Conscious Deserve Artificial Intelligence Entity

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.”

Process Acting Evolution Conscious Agents Entity Needles Knitting

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.”

Natural Attitude Moral Dangerous Danger Taste Degrees Judgment Intellectual Conscious Increase Monsters Unconscious Aesthetic Entity

Book:The practice of psychotherapy

Source: The practice of psychotherapy

“The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.”

Consciousness Conscious Vices Unconscious Entity Vice Versa Spatial

Author:Kedar Joshi

“We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.”

Source: Mostly Harmless

“The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and to oneself, I think, comes very close to what we traditionally mean by notions like "subjectivity".”

Thinking World Trying Mean Individual Models Conscious Relation Notion Oneself Entity Subjectivity

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there was ever a time when I was not conscious of it. As far back as I can think, I was aware of my own corporeality, my physical imposition on space.”

Thinking Knows I Can Body My Own Space Strange Normal Conscious Entity Imposition

Book:Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia