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.

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.

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.

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