Quotes
Authors
Charles Sanders Peirce

"I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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