David Chalmers Quotes
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.
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Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.
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Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.
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Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.
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If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.
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I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.
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Terrorism has long been a tactic, but modern technology allows a few small men with outsized rage to murder innocents on a horrific scale.
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White was the most fashionable color among the nobility and the rich. Because, of course, white is so easily dirtied, and only the wealthy would do little enough that it could not be spoiled.
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I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
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There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!'
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Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
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Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.
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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
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No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control.
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What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?
