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1 " Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments. "
― Alva Noë
2 " We are out of our heads. We are in the world and of it. We are patterns of active engagement with fluid boundaries and changing components. We are distributed. "
― Alva Noë , Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
3 " If we are to understand consciousness—the fact that we think and feel and that a world shows up for us—we need to turn our backs on the orthodox assumption that consciousness is something that happens inside us, like digestion. It is now clear, as it has not been before, that consciousness, like a work of improvisational music, is achieved in action, by us, thanks to our situation in and access to a world we know around us. We are in the world and of it. "
4 " •It is widely believed that baseball is a numbers game. But it isn’t. Not really. It’s not a quantitative game. It’s a normative game, for its main concern is who deserves credit or blame for what. In this sense, it is a philosophical game. "
― Alva Noë , Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark
