"You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'"

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Source : Ned Joel Block (2007). “Consciousness, function, and representation”, The MIT Press

Ned Block

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“I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.”
“I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing.”
“The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way?”
“You get old, you slow down.”
“The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.”
“I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.”
“It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.”
“Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.”

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