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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#books #first #money #novels #off

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#am #among #baton #colonel #honorary

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

#beyond #contain #cube #cubes #demonstration

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem. ↗

— David Chalmers

#certainly #conscious #experience #hard #nothing

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission. ↗

— Enrico Fermi

#certain #chain #course #each #fission

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! ↗

— David Chalmers

#australian #austrian #find #i #more

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with. ↗

— David Chalmers

#always #come #computer #computer science #consciousness

Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news. ↗

— David Chalmers

#big #big news #broader #consciousness #detailed

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years. ↗

— David Chalmers

#been #cognitive #consciousness #had #i

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it. ↗

— David Chalmers

#before #bottom #consciousness #few #fundamentally