Susan Haack Quotes on Mind
Susan Haack is a British-American philosopher, distinguished professor at the University of Miami, and one of the leading defenders of pragmatism and epistemological responsibility in contemporary analytic philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Susan Haack on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.”
- Susan Blackmore, interview in MungBeing -
“Memetics appears to have a lot of implications that we humans are machines, which people have never liked. Of course we're machines, we're biological machines. But people don't like that. Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. People don't like that. My view is that if these things are true it doesn't matter if we like them or not.”
Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes , Wired.com, 2/29/2008 -
“Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.”
Skeptic's Dictionary Newsletter 74 -
“The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi , because I didn’t have an open mind!”
The Elusive Open Mind: Ten Years of -
“The Elusive Open Mind: Ten Years of”
The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi , because I didn’t have an open mind!