"Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which it springs."

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Stephen Batchelor

#Spring Quotes #Fields Quotes #Events Quotes

“Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.”
“The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.”
“When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.”
“Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top.”
“But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.”
“I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.”
“The world would be a healthier place if oral contraceptives were available in every corner store and cigarettes were limited to prescription use.”
“Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense network of your neurons. Most slow hunches pass in and out of our memory too quickly, precisely because they possess a certain murkiness. You get a feeling that there's an interesting avenue to explore, a problem that might lead you to a solution, but then you get distracted by more pressing matters and the hunch disappears. So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.”

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