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Ryan Cross talking about how the bass was a lot cooler than the chello. "I have to be in touch with myself, myself being the instrument... which becomes you.. being in touch with thís"

Plato: we are rational beings, intellectual beings, thinking beings.

Descartes: we are a thinking thing, a subject, standing over and against the world, disengaged from the society, the body, from tradition and history, total disengagement

"When you've got the skill, the last thing that you want is to be thinking about or rationally analysing the activity that you're involved in"

"It's so much in his body, it is like a martial art, like a dance"

Hubert Dreyfus talking about how he was up against the technologists that claimed to be able to create AI.

Even the autonomous car that they claimed they have is *still* not there - not without all of the same problems that Dreyfus already pointed out back then.

Haugeland: the difference between human beings and machines: basically: "computers don't give a damn!"

Sometimes I'm listening to a recording and saying O man, did I play that? In a good way, you know? And other times I hear myself and think: O man... did I play that?

"I look what he does and saw how to do it. Teacher doesn't teach you anything. Sawdust. I was cleaning up sawdust, for a couple of years".

A meaningful existence picks you out - because nobody else would understand the complex hiearchies of meaning that only you understand.

He doesn't look at anything. He has this 'glazing' look - He's ready to be drawn into anything that is calling him to act on the moment.

They're doing what they think they ought to be doing, and it is always a disaster.

....I don't have to rely on what I know, when I am in tune with the others I can come up with anything on the spot.

Taylor Carman: The authentic person has a spontaneity that you don't get if you only fall back on rules, principles, procedures, generic formulas for how to think, how to act, how to be.