Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

Colors are things we experience.

The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what knowledge and skills we've cultivated. As with a painting in a gallery, the world has no meaning-no presence to be experienced-apart from our ability to engagement with it.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.

I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.

The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.

One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.