“I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.” IfsWorldWayTryingMeanDoeAbleMovingAsksConsciousnessFiguresCrisisScalesMoving ForwardConclusionEnlightenedExistentialScopeRight QuestionsExistential CrisisKnowledge Of The World Author:Elon Musk
“[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.” KnowsChildrenStillsDifferentMatterFactsAnimalInterestingConsciousnessTalkingFiguresSpeciesSufficientDull Author:Fran Lebowitz
“The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.... The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.” WorldWholeSeemsForceConsciousnessRolesStageFiguresFieldsEuropeWesternEastFamiliarEmpiresRepresentationExtensionsUnlimitedConfinedTheatricalFramedOrientalism Author:Edward Said
“Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.” SelfHardFeelingsLightActorsCan DoNaturalConsciousnessFiguresMarkPhysicsEtcAfternoonSelf ConsciousnessCharacterization Author:Tom Hanks
“What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.” TryingAsksForceNatureInterestingConsciousnessFiguresMost Interesting Author:Oscar Isaac
“We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.” WayLanguageConsciousnessCrazyFigures Author:Aleksandar Hemon