Alva Noe Quotes

United States, Professor
1964

Alva Noë is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. The focus of his work is the theory of perception and consciousness. In addition to these problems in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, he is interested in phenomenology, the theory of art, Wittgenstein, and the origins of analytic philosophy.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

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- Happens
- Perception
- We Do
One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.

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I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.

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- Thinking
- Living
- Wholes
Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

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- Think
- Feel
- Consciousness
The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.

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- World
- Helps
- Resource
The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what knowledge and skills we've cultivated. As with a painting in a gallery, the world has no meaning-no presence to be experienced-apart from our ability to engagement with it.

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- World
- Knowledge
- Skills
Colors are things we experience.

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- Experience
- Colors
Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

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You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.

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- World
- Experience
- Color