“On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsTryingWould BeViewsBrainIssuesAppealsHopelessMechanismIntrospectionOrthodoxy Author:David Papineau
“I don't think that we can figure out what is going on in conscious colour perception just by phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms as well. We need to figure out what information is present in the mechanisms that constitute conscious colour perception.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWellsBrainFiguresInformationPerceptionConsciousColourMechanismIntrospection Author:David Papineau
“If neuroscientific research shows that those mechanisms only contain comparative information about colour differences, and have 'thrown away' more fine-grained information about the absolute colours of single surfaces, then that would support my position, in a way that just introspecting our colour experiences can't.” IfsWayShowsDifferencesSupportInformationPositionFineResearchAbsolutesSurfaceColourThrownMechanismScientific Research Author:David Papineau
“I do agree with Stich that a quick move from our evolutionary origins to the reliability of our cognitive mechanisms is not legitimate. As I see it, the case for the reliability or unreliability of various cognitive mechanisms lies elsewhere.” MovingLyingCasesAgreeVariousMechanismElsewhereCognitiveReliabilityUnreliability Author:Hilary Kornblith
“If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency, this fact about our evolutionary origin is of no use at all in addressing questions about reliability.” IfsFactsUseInterestPossibilityParticularTendenciesMechanismReliability Author:Hilary Kornblith
“Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.” KindShowsSubstitutesMechanismPsychologistUnreliable Author:Hilary Kornblith
“In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective.” WayFirstsBelievePersonsI BelieveViewsDealsPerspectiveDeservePhilosopherVariousPoint Of ViewPsychologicalMechanismFirst PersonThis I Believe Author:Hilary Kornblith
“At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot of progress with this despite minimal funding) we should be able to devise more effective interventions for those who are already ill.” IfsShouldHas BeensAbleIndividualLevelsEnvironmentProgressIllPsychologicalDespiteMechanismInterventionFundingAdversePsychosis Author:Richard Bentall
“So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history tells us that whenever things start to move too fast, whenever progress makes people feel a little breathless, one of the go-to spots that government, that the ruling powers that society goes to is to try to repress women.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingLittlesSometimesGovernmentMovingPoliticalProgressSpotsMechanismRulingDisconnectedBreathless Author:Anna Quindlen
“You can't say British Columbia's carbon tax is exactly the same as increasing hydroelectricity rates in another province. They're very different mechanisms, but we shouldn't deny that both of them can have an impact, and that's why we're talking about this broadly.” DifferentTalkingTaxesImpactRateDenyBritishMechanismCarbonProvincesColumbiaBritish ColumbiaCarbon Tax Author:Christy Clark
“I don't really know. I think the first test is when you're very little and you fart, and you laugh at it and so do your friends and family. I knew before I was funny I was very annoying so I have that covered. I think it was because I was not very good in school I used humor as a defense mechanism. When I started doing plays and stuff at school I decided that I was going to keep doing it until someone tells me to stop and get a real job.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsLittlesRealPlaySchoolJobsUsedStuffLaughingDecidedTestsVery GoodDefenseCoveredAnnoyingMechanismFamily And FriendsFartReal JobsDefense Mechanisms Author:Joel McHale
“Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms.” PeopleFirstsMomentsTodayFirst TimeSlaveryPresent MomentMechanismCapturedSlavery Today Author:Kevin Bales
“I think my body makes itself tired so I don't have the energy to do anything else beforehand. I do jump around a lot on stage, so I guess my body's like, "You are tired now!" As soon as I get onstage the adrenaline takes over. It's a useful mechanism.” ThinkingBodyEnergyStageLike YouTiredOver ItMechanismAdrenaline Author:Martina Sorbara
“It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.” IfsWayMatterEyeRunningOrderFrontsTruth IsRiversVery GoodDenialMechanismEgypt Author:Bassem Youssef
“The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.” PeopleGivenAnswersClearViolenceRiskPositionMeetingsChicagoMechanismConferences Author:Roger Lewin
“Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to tamper with this box of transistors and tubes when we don't do the same for Time magazine?” PeoplePoliticsWishLibertyBoxesLibertarianObsessionMagazinesMechanismLibertarianismMarketplaceTubesTime MagazineTransistors Author:Mark S. Fowler
“I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.” ThinkingShouldUseDecisionMessagesIndependenceMechanismRecallsReluctantJudicialUnpopular Decisions Author:Deborah Rhode
“The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that false reality is light-years from what’s really happening, that in itself is a tremendous defense mechanism because when you start talking about what is actually happening, it is so different from what people perceive to be happening. They just can’t make that jump; it’s too insane for them.” PeopleYearsDifferentRealityLightTalkingHappeningsSellsDefenseInsanePerceiveMechanismNormDefense MechanismsLight YearsFalse Reality Author:David Icke
“And it (the left brain) has a massive role within this reality, yes. It is basically the point where infinite consciousness joins this reality. It’s that conduit. But if you get trapped in it, and imprisoned by it, you become the decoding mechanism itself and it becomes your awareness.” IfsRealityLeftBrainConsciousnessRolesAwarenessInfiniteMassiveMechanismTrappedLeft BrainInfinite Consciousness Author:David Icke
“I don't know if power seduces less or more. I think power is a constant evolving mechanism that, since the dawn of time, on one level corrupts and on another level does not. But I think, no matter what, mutates.” IfsThinkingKnowsDoeMatterLevelsNo Matter WhatConstantEvolveDawnMechanismSeducing Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“The ESM, the European Stability Mechanism, is not funded by Germany alone. Twenty-seven percent of the bailout package comes from Germany. Italy and France together cover a total of 38 percent. That's reality. It makes no sense to say that everyone wants to get at Germany's money.” WantRealityTogetherPercentTwentiesSevenFranceGermanyStabilityMechanismPackagesBailouts Author:Martin Schulz
“What's going on is that our most fundamental ideas about life are not serving us. They never have. But now, with our advances in communication and technology, the situation has become critical - for our mechanisms have outrun our mentality. And so we find ourselves trying to solve the dilemmas of tomorrow with the solutions of yesterday.” TryingIdeasSituationTechnologyCommunicationTomorrowSolutionsFundamentalsSolveCriticalYesterdayServingMechanismMentalityDilemmaOutrun Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Often when something is going on behind the scenes and people fight for change, the fight will go on and on and on until they understand the mechanism that they're actually fighting against.” PeopleFightingBehindsGoes OnSceneMechanismBehind The Scenes Author:Josh Tickell
“Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.” GenerationsDutySurvivalNobleMechanismAdaptationFuture GenerationOur Generation Author:Leilani Munter
“When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.” SelfBodyCoursesDifficultLosesGoes OnWeightExtremesYour BodyBurningDietsMechanismPreservationCaloriesSelf PreservationLose Weight Author:Tony Robbins
“I don't think the victims should be babied, but there should be a counselor to teach them coping mechanisms. The bully needs counseling too.” ThinkingNeedsShouldTeachVictimMechanismBullyCopingCounselingCounselorCoping Mechanisms Author:Laura Michelle Kelly
“We will have a mechanism for dealing with people in this country that - you heard the word humanely again. It is going to be fair. It is going to be tough. But there will be no path to legalization, no path to citizenship unless people leave the country.” PeopleCountryPathHeardToughFairsMechanismCitizenshipDealing With People Author:Mike Pence
“We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.” VisionPerceptionFocusedDefenseDaily LifeMechanismTunnelsJadedDefense MechanismsTunnel Vision Author:Vera Nazarian
“I like to think that people can see that and appreciate that idea and then, by some mechanism of wearing the fragrance, sort of carry that idea with them in their own life. Whether it's a weekend in Louisiana or in New York City or in Venice, Italy, or wherever they may be. I think there's something kind of fascinating and powerful about that.” PeopleThinkingKindMayIdeasPowerfulCitiesNew YorkAppreciateFascinatingNew York CityWeekendMechanismFragranceVeniceLouisiana Author:Jared Leto
“Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.” ThinkingBitsBoysFatsMechanismDefenceBeing FunnyDefence Mechanism Author:Pippa Evans
“The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.” GivingHumansBrainNewsPrioritiesMechanismBad News Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.” FallLevelsCuttingAgingErrorsHealCellsMechanismFalling ApartCellular Author:Michio Kaku
“We believe that big nations should not bully smaller nations, and that the sovereignty of nations must be respected. And we have long urged that disputes be resolved peacefully, including through mechanisms like international arbitration.” ShouldBelieveLongBigsNationsIncludingInternationalMechanismSovereigntyBullyDisputesArbitration Author:Barack Obama
“I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For example, there's some play in the steering column before it engages as you're turning the wheel.” ThinkingWayImportantPlayExamplePropertyWheelsMechanismColumnsSteering Author:Ian Bogost
“The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.” PeopleMightFunProduceMechanismDrowningGratificationNoveltyFamiliarity Author:Ian Bogost
“I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.” YearsEndsHappenedChildhoodPaintingTypeConsciousPatternsMechanismCopyingYale Author:Kehinde Wiley
“In a world in which technology is changing at such a fast pace, where demand conditions change very fast, we need to look at a more innovative mechanism to cut down on this rigmarole of many tiers of decision-making processes.” WorldNeedsLooksProcessDecisionTechnologyCuttingConditionsDemandDecision MakingPaceMechanismInnovativeDecision Making Process Author:Manmohan Singh
“What I do know is that drones are a modern weapon. When used effectively, when taking out ISIS or terrorist leaders, that's pretty impressive. When bombing wedding parties of innocent people and killing dozens of them, that is, needless to say, not effective and enormously counterproductive. So whatever the mechanism, whoever is in control of that policy, it has to be refined so that we are killing the people we want to kill and not innocent collateral damage.” PeopleKnowsWantUsedPartyLeaderModernPolicyWeaponsKillingTerroristInnocentDamageDozenMechanismImpressiveIsisRefinedBombingDronesCounterproductiveCollateralCollateral DamageWedding Party Author:Bernie Sanders
“Take the self-driving car and the smartphone and put those together and think about how to manage a smart grid because suddenly you have all of this data coming from those two mechanisms that allow for a much higher level of allocating energy much more efficiently.” ThinkingTwoSelfTogetherEnergyLevelsCarHigherSmartDrivingManageDataMechanismHigher LevelGridsSmartphonesDriving Cars Author:Jonathon Keats
“Just think of the trust that often exists in soldiers. Within their own unit, you could say they have to trust each other. A spirit of camaraderie builds up and, in the end, they will risk their lives for each other. They may even go so far as to dehumanise the other, enemy group - a mechanism you can also observe in chimps.” ThinkingMayEndsSpiritEnemyRiskGroupsSoldierMechanismUnitsCamaraderie Author:Jane Goodall
“What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates.” PeopleWantIdeasCountryStatesEnoughPartyOpinionMediaMassHappeningsVoteThirdsMajorityDebateOur CountryReformCandidatesAgendasSensibleMechanismMass MediaThird PartiesRedirection Author:Ralph Nader
“The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion of there being a root down at the quantum level between intention and reality, between consciousness and existence - it's not a matter of trying to explain the mystery of magic away with a pat mechanism of a pseudoscience, it's just a matter of trying to ground it in a domain.” WorldTryingRealMatterRealityUnderstandingLevelsExistenceConsciousnessMagicMysteryRootsIntentionNotionPhysicsMechanismQuantumMysticalConstructsDomainPseudoscienceMultiverseOverlapping Author:Jon Spaihts
“Only when Stephen Strange has his accident and everything that he's ever had in his life falls apart that he becomes pretty monstrous. It's the self-loathing rage of a wounded animal and he doesn't have a coping mechanism at all. It ties in with the discipline and the magic of this world.” WorldSelfFallAnimalMagicThis WorldStrangeDisciplineAccidentsRageTiesMechanismWoundedFalling ApartMonstrousCopingLoathingSelf LoathingCoping MechanismsWounded Animal Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“By creating a prosecutor who is overseen over by a court, they are melding executive and judicial power in a way that can lead to terrible abuses - as the founders of America understood full well. It's why they created a system of separated powers - to set up a constitutional mechanism that would enhance freedom, by making sure that no one's accumulation of power could predominate over [that of] others.” WayWellsAmericaTerribleCreatingUnderstoodAbuseCourtExecutivesMechanismFoundersAccumulationJudicialProsecutorJudicial Power Author:John Bolton
“There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.” MechanismShortage Author:Marcus Buckingham
“Senator [Bob] Corker has been, first of all, discreet and loyal. He has not signaled the internal mechanisms. He`s been pretty honestly saying, I wasn`t a real insider in the campaign.” FirstsHas BeensRealHonestlyCampaignsInternalsMechanismLoyalBobSenatorsInsidersDiscreet Author:Andrea Mitchell
“The Electoral College protects state sovereignty. It actually is one of the most brilliantly conceived electoral mechanisms ever.” StatesCollegeProtectMechanismSovereigntyElectoral College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning those stories will be a fruitless looping until we learn how to move from the story into our body. This is why therapy alone often doesn't bring full healing and awakening.” TryingMindStoriesProblemBodyMovingNaturalHealingWork OutAwakeningTherapyMechanismReplay Author:Tara Brach
“I think of depression as the mechanism that pushes down the pain of that loss. It tries to distance us from the loss but it lowers our whole energy level. I think that's a pervasive way we end up responding to loss or the anticipation of loss. Natural but not necessary.” ThinkingWayTryingEndsWholePainEnergyNaturalLossLevelsDistanceMechanismAnticipationRespondingEnergy Levels Author:Tara Brach
“If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible for him to use the mechanism of evolution without posting obvious road signs to reveal his role in creation?” IfsHas BeensUseRolesCreationEvolutionObviousSuitsSensibleMechanismDeitiesRoad Sign Author:Richard Dawkins