Consciousness Quotes

“The argument is that the Gödel theorem shows that there's something in our understanding that is not computational.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

“Yes, we have a soul. But it's made of lots of tiny robots.”

“You are the screen on which the movie of life is playing.”

“Consciousness is not a property of matter, and it cannot be detected in the laboratory.”

“You have to come with a conscious thinking and morality and spirituality. The music is the vehicle to get that across.”

“Consciousness is just a story the brain tells itself.”

“We think we are the authors of our own thoughts, but we are not.”

“The observer is the observed.”

“The very nature of perception is what I’m interested in.”

“Why is it that when our brains process information, we have an inner life?”

“There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.”

“Minds are complex systems that process information. If we can understand the principles of information processing, we can understand the principles of mind.”

“The stuff of the world is mind-stuff.”

“To be alive and to be aware is a terrific combination.”

“The remembrance of a particular form is signaled to consciousness by the awakening of a nerve fiber.”

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

“The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.”

“Thinking is simply the reasoning of the individual, the talking of the self to himself.”