Nagel Thinks

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    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.
    —Thomas Nagel (b. 1938)

    Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)