Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do. Alva Noe More Quotes by Alva Noe More Quotes From Alva Noe Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do. Alva Noe psychology medicine philosophy Perceiving how things are is a mode of exploring how things appear. How they appear is, however, an aspect of how they are. To explore appearance is thus to explore the environment, the world. To discover how things are, from how they appear, is to discover an order or pattern in their appearance. The process of perceiving, of finding out how things are, is a process of meeting the world; it is an activity of skillful exploration. Alva Noe patterns order world 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. Alva Noe body skills needs Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us. Alva Noe facts world thinking I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes. Alva Noe humans conscious thinking 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. Alva Noe engagement skills world 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. Alva Noe pseudo machines smart Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe. Alva Noe safe play trying You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color. Alva Noe bits color world If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact that we are ourselves dependent on and distributed over and in a way made up out of the world and processes around us then we can explain certain questions that we otherwise cannot explain and moreover we discover that we are not aliens in a strange world. Alva Noe people way world Colors are things we experience. Alva Noe color
