"[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."

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• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.965
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• What features of each theory specifically pick out brains as a privileged substrate of inner perspective, or do the features emphasized by the theory occur elsewhere?question0.812
  The central research question that drives the paper's analysis.
• You will come to feel that by refusing to entertain a simple hypothesis that explains everything - sensitivity as a property common to all matter or as a result of the organization of matter - you are flying in the face of common sense and plunging into a chasm of mysteries, contradictions and absurdities.quote0.806
  Diderot's argument for the simplicity and rationality of a living-matter hypothesis over the mechanistic dead-matter view.
• "It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.803
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach
• There is an empirical way in which we can help ourselves to find out what we really like from the heart. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find what we really like, and it is by no means automatic to be in touch with it. It takes effort, hard work, and personal enlightenment to understand it and to feel it.claim0.803
  Fifth point introducing the empirical test and the personal growth required.
• All that is required is that this mechanical procedure is sensitive to the whole and is influenced by and guided by the structure of the whole. That is the secret of morphological emergence in natural phenomena.quote0.802
  Load-bearing statement asserting that sensitivity to the whole is the essential requirement for generating novel living structure.
• If someone develops clear enough introspection, they will eventually conclude that thought is rendered as subtle perturbations in phenomenal fields.hypothesis0.800
  Cube Flipper's prediction about convergence of insight practice on field model.
• The reasons for the existence of this deep liking are mysterious, not obvious. To plumb them we shall have to examine the nature of things - even, ultimately, the nature of matter itself - very carefully. Nevertheless the reasons are empirical. We may determine, empirically, to what extent a thing has the ability to rouse this deep liking in us.claim0.796
  Assertion of the empirical but mysterious basis of deep liking.