Quotes About Consciousness

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.

We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

It's something I've noticed with my two children - children frequently know and don't know at the same time. They are aware of aspects of the world that are a little bit shadowy, and they choose not to engage with them.

Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we've done and how we've behaved form our notion of who we are, what our character is. So if part of that were missing, what does that actually say about you? And what does it say about your sense of responsibility for things if you can't remember them?

In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution.

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn't think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I'd like to think comes from the years of attention we've put into this.

My art has no object, no image, no point of focus.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.