Quotes About Consciousness

robust intelligence may be a liability—especially if by "intelligence" we mean our peculiar self-awareness, all our frantic loops of introspection and messy currents of self-consciousness. We want our self-driving car to be inhumanly focused on the road, not obsessing over an argument it had with the garage.

What we want instead of conscious intelligence is artificial smartness. As AIs develop, we might have to engineer ways to prevent consciousness in them. Our most premium AI services will likely be advertised as consciousness-free. Nonhuman

This is the curse of the postscarcity world: We can connect to only a thin thread of all there is. Each

Do you own your own thoughts, or are you merely accessing them?

There is no "I" for a person, for a beehive, for a corporation, for an animal, for a nation, for any living thing. The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost, an ephemeral shroud.

As AIs develop, we might have to engineer ways to prevent consciousness in them. Our most premium AI services will likely be advertised as consciousness-free.

There are all sorts of lies you tell yourself over and over until you accept them as readily as you do your own skin. And it isn't always easy to recognize them as lies.

Live your life; Don't life your live

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Like Rachel Dolezal, I too became black around the age of five. I first became a n----r at nine, so I had me a good run.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.

Never forget what is in your mind

Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

The last thing she remembered before finally drifting off was how nice Steffi's hair smelled.

If we are not intentionally conscious in our communications, we are likely to cause unintentional harm.

Traditional public relations, internal communications, and executive communications exist to reinforce the status quo…. [T]hat means force-fitting messaging, restricting what people know to control what we want them to feel, and limiting what they do. Becoming conscious communicators by applying a DEI lens to our work means expanding the topics, options, and actions our audience can experience — making room.

As communicators, we are complicit in the harm caused by performative communications, microaggressions, reinforcing stereotypes in our content, and contributing to damaging our brand's reputation…. As conscious communicators, with an awareness of others' experiences and a commitment to centering them, we are uniquely positioned to help build a truly people-centered workplace.

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live." "The best kind of music comes when you're being intuitive, unconscious of your body, in some ways losing your mind: the Body/Head dynamic.

Entre as vidas que vivemos e as vidas que desejamos viver fica o lugar em nossas mentes onde a maioria de nós realmente vive.

There is an entire industry aimed at offering you classes or courses that supposedly give you spiritual or psychic abilities or raise your consciousness to a supranormal level.

Many spiritual and religious teachings talk about the concept that we have forgotten who we are as spiritual beings and have come to see ourselves as human beings.