“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.” — Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
Tag: consciousness
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“The internet works against historical consciousness because the new and newer news comes so quickly to hand that it buries all thought of what happened yesterday or the day before in an avalanche of data.” — Lewis H. Lapham, The Art of Editing No. 4, the Paris Review (Summer 2019)
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“What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.” — David Malouf, An Imaginary Life
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“My consciousness may not be much, but it’s all I’ve got.” — Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang
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“We’re all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.” — Anil Seth, Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
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“The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.” — Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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