qotd

"With the advent of cognitive science, intelligence has become intelligible. It may not be too outrageous to say that at a very abstract level of analysis the problem has been solved. But consciousness or sentience, the raw sensation of toothaches and redness and saltiness and middle C, is still a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. When asked what consciousness is, we have no better answer than Louis Armstrong's when a reporter asked him what jazz is: 'Lady, if you have to ask, you'll never know.'"

Steven Pinker, from How the Mind Works

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2nd qotd!

"A teacher I knew once said that the best thing she ever heard was that

'Why, when the revolution comes, everybody will have champagne!'

Deep down, I want everybody to have champagne, enough lives to have a fizzy, delightful vintage that it changes things forever, perspective, sight,artistry, wishes, making every choice a joyous, explosive yes...instead of just falling into the same old thing, sleepwalking. Maybe some will.

In the meantime, I'm not done yet.

I'd also say I had the best hat, but there wasn't enough competition to really make it fair.

When the revolution comes, everyone ought to have feather hats too, if they want them."


--jessicamelusine


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