"In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions."

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Source : "Eccles' Model of the Self Controlling Its Brain: The Irrelevance of Dualist-Interactionism" by Donald E. Watson and Bernard O. Williams, 2003.

John Eccles

#Sleep Quotes #Self Quotes #Order Quotes

“The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.”
“[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.”
“The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.”

Source : Sextus (Empiricus.) (1993). “Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism”
“Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.”
“Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.”
“He's the game all right.”
“The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.”
“Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you. I know the feeling.”

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