Daydreaming Idly
"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Even so, it will always be the same possibilities, either in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality over the idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their directions, and he awakens them."
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is done with you."
- David Foster Wallace
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The Philosophers’ Magazine | Hacker’s challenge (on the problem of consciousness)
“Peter Hacker tells James Garvey that neuroscientists are talking nonsense.”
This is a great interview, approaching an essay, of one of the best kinds. It totally challenges the way I had always thought about a subject. I wish I could find things to read every week that would challenge my assumptions the way this one did. Well worth the read for the philosophically-inclined.
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