Quotes About Consciousness

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.

I've been put under 8.5G in a stunt aeroplane. I felt all right. Well, I lost my vision, but I was still conscious.

You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy.

When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

All experience is subjective.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment.

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.