Quotes About Perception

If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour.

And then, if the child is born in me, the sight of my father and all my friends slain before my eyes would leave my heart untouched. For if my heart were moved thereby, the child would not have been born in me, though its birth might be near.

licorice to you. But to birds and other enemies, they are colors of DANGER, telling

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

I always thought a rich lie is better than a poor truth:

I think Peter Falk had one real eye and one glass eye, and having one eye was probably better for shooting pool than having two.

l'altezza dei monti non si misura con gli strumenti dei cartografi, come il valore delle persone non da ciò che fanno o sembrano, ma da ciò che sono.

megérthetem, hogyan m?ködik az olvasás, és miért van az, hogy ugyanazok a szavak valakit meghatnak, másvalakit hidegen hagynak, megint mást pedig egyenesen zavarnak

Non pretendo di essere capito, ognuno di noi è l'enigma di se stesso.

Aveva sbattuto le palpebre, come se non fosse sicura di dov'era, né di essere chi era. Però riconobbe me, e mi sorrise. Per te non significa niente - ma per un uomo, a volte, un bagliore nella pupilla della persona amata può valere più di tutto. Capisci? Ha riconosciuto me prima di se stessa. Io testimoniavo che lei era viva, che lei esisteva - che è esistita.

In ciò che non ha voluto essere lo riconosco.

In our layered experience of the world, it's possible to believe we have left behind the blunt realities of being animal. Nothing could be further from the truth. Human life may be a blend of biology and dreams, but these dreams are still animal dreams.

For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.

Why do you always think the sky is falling? Maybe the sky is calling, not falling.

I think I'd rather be beautiful. Beautiful makes evolving into any sort of a person with morals and character very difficult.

There was also the fact that thinking you were paranoid could make you paranoid.

but she seemed to be made more of nerves than muscle and was always clutching at herself mentally, starting at shadows of thoughts that crept up on her.

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

as the AI researcher Pedro Domingos so memorably put it, "People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world."21

As the nineteenth-century philosopher Henry David Thoreau put it, "All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Above all, the take-home message from this book is that we humans tend to overestimate AI advances and underestimate the complexity of our own intelligence. Today's

It's important to note that a top-down (or feed-backward) flow of information (from higher to lower layers) also occurs in the visual cortex; in fact, there are about ten times as many feed-backward connections as feed-forward ones. However the role of these backward connections is not well understood by neuroscientists, although it is well established that our prior knowledge and expectations, presumably stored in higher brain layers, strongly influence what we perceive.

Please don't tell me you believe dragons eat pretty girls for breakfast.

He's like a lake. You assume it has great depths, pure undisturbed undiscoverable depths. You assume depths must be there because the surface is so flat--pretty and flat and utterly unrevealing. Boring almost, you might say, if you didn't know about the depths, that is, if you didn't believe they were there.