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265 printed pages
- Original publication
- 2017
- Publication year
- 2017
- Publisher
- Picador
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- Pichkurov Sergeyhas quoted6 years ago
But by studying the limits of our own awareness alongside the remarkable abilities of other species, and by realising that the way we experience the world, and the self, is not the only way, we can gain startling glimpses into a space of ‘possible consciousnesses’. We might never experience what it is like to be an octopus, but it seems very likely that there is something it is like to be this terrestrial alien. - Pichkurov Sergeyhas quoted6 years agoIs consciousness a unique event in the history of the Universe, concentrated by evolutionary happenstance on a small planet in a distant backwater of a remote Galaxy? Or is consciousness here, there and everywhere? Perhaps consciousness is even a fundamental property of the Universe itself, like electrical charge and mass. As yet, nobody knows.
- Pichkurov Sergeyhas quoted6 years agoPerception isn’t just about having this or that sense. When we perceive our environment, for example using vision, we don’t just build an accurate picture of an objective reality, like an internal camera might do. Instead, we perceive the world in terms of how we might act in it and on it.
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