I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.