Quotes About Awareness

The high data-rate sense perception and identification abilities of the human system mostly bypass verbal/analytic awareness. We are generally conscious of a cognitive recognition after the fact. In this way, what we understand as consciousness has to be identified as a reflexive monitoring ability with quite limited application. To produce consciousness (artificial or otherwise) we are stepping down, not up.

un precipicio se descubre siempre demasiado tarde».

a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

I tell you, Prue, consciousness has to be something that flows against the current of time. Time in which it's embedded.

From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where

Hayat?n s?rr?n?n çözülecek bir problem deÄŸil, tecrübe edilecek bir gerçeklik olduÄŸunu söyledi. Ben de Mentatl???n Ä°lk Yasas?'n? söyledim: 'Bir süreç onu durdurarak anla??lamaz. Ä°drak sürecin ak???yla birlikte gerçekleÅŸmeli, ona kat?lmal? ve onunla birlikte akmal?d?r.

Knowledge of mistakes taught him long-term corrections. He had to be constantly aware of consequences. If consequences were lost or concealed, lessons were lost.

Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know.

Without even the safety valve of dreaming, he focused his prescient awareness, seeing it as a computation of most probable futures, but with something more, an edge of mystery - as though his mind dipped into some timeless stratum and sampled the winds of the future.

They thought of frustration as a threshold, a factor to heighten awareness. It

The thought hung like a sine wave in Leto's mind:

It's the look of terrible awareness, she thought, of someone forced to the knowledge of his own mortality.

Because of the one-pointed Time awareness in which the conventional mind remains immersed, humans tend to think of everything in a sequential, word-oriented framework. This mental trap produces very short-term concepts of effectiveness and consequences, a condition of constant, unplanned response to crises. —LIET-KYNES THE ARRAKIS WORKBOOK

There was danger, he felt, of overrunning himself, and he had to hold onto his awareness of the present, sensing the blurred deflection of experience, the flowing moment, the continual solidification of that-which-is into the perpetual-was.

Frank Herbert

Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack. The

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. —FROM "MUAD'DIB: THE NINETY-NINE WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything which might lift them out of that false serenity.

Pense no fato de que o surdo é incapaz de ouvir. Sendo assim, será que não sofremos algum tipo de surdez? Que sentidos nos faltam para que não consigamos ver nem ouvir outro mundo a nossa volta?

Mentats share the fallibilities of those who use them," she said. "The human mind, as is the case with the mind of any animal, is a resonator. It responds to resonances in the environment. The mentat has learned to extend his awareness across many parallel loops of causality and to proceed along those loops for long chains of consequences

They're Duncan's words and Duncan was speaking as a mentat. 'In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness.

His left hand felt the sphincter

Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.