From an article by Galen Strawson, a philosopher of conciousness:<\/p>\n
Herbert Feigl remembers a conversation with Einstein in Princeton in 1954 in which he asked Einstein whether he thought that \u201cthe qualities of immediate experience\u201d would be left out in an ideally perfect representation of the universe \u2014 given that they are not accounted for in physics. Einstein \u201creplied in his characteristic, humorous manner (I translate from the German in which he used a rather uncouth word): \u2018Why, if it weren\u2019t for this \u201cinternal illumination\u201d [consciousness] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!\u2019<\/b>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Freddie’s emphasis. Presumably Feigl is hinting that Einstein said “pile of shit” (Scheissehaufen) in German.<\/p>\n
— Feigl, H. (1958\/1967). The \u2018mental\u2019 and the \u2018physical\u2019: The Essay and a Postscript. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.<\/p>\n
Quoted in Strawson, Galen. (2019). A hundred years of consciousness: \u201ca long training in absurdity\u201d. Estudios de Filosof\u00eda. 9-43. 10.17533\/udea.ef.n59a02. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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