David Chalmers Quotes

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?

David Chalmers

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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.

  

  Origen
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Women
  • Help
  • Support

• For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• I never thought I was a very good manager.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Manager

• 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.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • People
  • Model
  • View

• 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.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Up
  • Time
  • City

• 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.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Annoying
  • Challenging

• Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

  

  Sam Simon
  • World
  • Change
  • Problem

• Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • World
  • Name

• 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.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Work
  • Different
  • Why

• I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Distance

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Winning
  • Terrorism

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Challenge
  • Effort
  • Moment

• I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Things
  • Plan
  • Return

• Terrorism has long been a tactic, but modern technology allows a few small men with outsized rage to murder innocents on a horrific scale.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Long
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Color

• The idea of a band nowadays is 5 pretty boys, one with a tattoo, one with a shaved head, and on and on. What the fuck is that? I mean, I like Britney Spears, I think she's pretty, but I'm not from the Mickey Mouse Club-I'm from the Godzilla Club!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Band

• My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Nature
  • Challenge

• Steaks every day for me. Steaks for breakfast. Steaks for lunch. Steaks for brunch. Grass-fed, massaged beef. All day long.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Long
  • Breakfast

• Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Character
  • Strong

• Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

  

  Maya Rudolph
  • Life
  • Moments

• People have been listening to Burning Spear for a long time now, and they know who I am and what I stand for. Yes, I do address many of the same ideas from album to album, adding only a little different flavor or coloring. Yes, the message has remained virtually the same because the issues haven't gone away yet.

  

  Burning Spear
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?

  

  David Chalmers