“If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.” PeopleIfsRealityConsciousnessKnownKnowledgeTelevisionTvsPerceptionMassBeing TrueAcknowledgeCollectivesFragmentsTrue KnowledgeCollective ConsciousnessPerception Is Reality Book:Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television
“The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true.” HumansStoriesBigsHappensCultureConsciousnessPlanetsEvolutionBeing TrueBangsFormationAdventHuman ConsciousnessSarsEvolution Of Life Author:Ursula Goodenough
“But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.” IfsMayDoeScienceRealizingConsciousnessInformationTheoryScientistOriginalsMethodRateConclusionBeing TrueGreekPhysicistPhonyScientific MethodConnotation Author:Anthony Standen