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die - sleep

William Shakespeare

Phraseologism: To die is to sleep.

Meaning: About an attempt to escape from reality, an escape from a hated environment.

Origin: From the tragedy "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Hamlet's monologue (act. 3, yavl. 1) translated into prose (1837) by the writer, journalist, historian and critic Nikolai Alekseevich Polevoy (1796-1846).

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Any judgment about someone cannot be objective.

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An article by the American philosopher Thomas Nagel, published in 1974 in the journal "Philosophical Review" and which has become a classic for consciousness research. In this article, Thomas Nagel criticized physicalist reductionism, which at that time was the dominant approach in science and analytic philosophy to the solution of the psychophysical problem. According to Nagel, a being can only be conscious when "something is" that being, that is, when the world is perceived from the subjective point of view of that being. Any attempt to identify mental phenomena with physical processes in the brain is unsuccessful due to the subjective nature of consciousness, which, according to Nagel, is the very essence of consciousness. Therefore, not a single person can imagine what it means to be a bat that perceives the surrounding world, along with the sense organs common with a person, also with the help of an echolocation organ that is absent in a person. Science, on the other hand, operates exclusively with objective facts, independent of the observer and his subjective experience. Philosophers who insist on the impossibility of comprehending the nature of consciousness using the scientific method used this article by Nagel as a kind of manifesto of their views.

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