Quotes About Consciousness

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.

Like a graveyard for soldiers, he thought morbidly as he moved about, feeling compressed by the smallness of the room. On a wicker table a copy of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. "How far'd you get into it?" he asked her. "To Within a Budding Grove.

thousand thoughts wandered loose in his head as he lay, fully awake. What

Das Leben einer Spinne ist genauso groß wie Ihres, und Ihres ist genauso groß wie meins. Ein Leben ist ein Leben.

Do you think someday somebody will make a simulacrum of you and me? And we'll have to come back to life?

Ogni singolo uomo vede soltanto una porzione della verità complessiva; e molto spesso, in realtà quasi sempre, egli deliberatamente, si inganna anche su questo piccolo frammento. Una parte di se stesso gli si rivolta contro e prende ad agire come se fosse un'altra persona, distruggendolo dall'interno. Un uomo all'interno di un uomo. Il che vuol dire nessun uomo del tutto

There's something very strange and touching about humans. An android would have never done that. (…) It wouldn't have occurred to him; as he said, never in a million years.

Listen, Ruth. I saw the fabric of reality split open. I saw—behind. Underneath. I saw what was really there. And I don't want to go back.

Che cosa vede una camera? si chiese. Voglio dire, che cosa vede per davvero? E fin dove? Anche dentro la testa? Anche giù dentro il cuore?

Qualquer homem vê apenas uma pequena porção da verdade total, e muitas vezes, na verdade quase sempre de maneira perpétua, ele também se engana deliberadamente em relação a esse pequeno e precioso fragmento. Uma porção dele se volta contra si e age como outra pessoa, derrotando-o por dentro. Um homem dentro de outro homem. O qual não é, em absoluto, um homem. -O homem duplo

He has integrated his early fears and guilts into one interwoven grid, the ship said to itself. There is no way I can serve up a pleasant memory to him because he instantly contaminates it.

The Nexus-6 did have two trillion constituents plus a choice within a range of ten million possible combinations of cerebral activity. In .45 of a second an android equipped with such a brain structure could assume any one of fourteen basic reaction-postures. Well, no intelligence test would trop such an andy. But then, intelligence tests hadn't trapped an andy in years, not since the primordial, crude varieties of the 1970s.

Maybe you're an android, Officer Crams said. With a false memory, like they give them. Had you thought of that?

But it if was helping him, what would the criterion be? I mean, you know, if he only dreamed that he heard a voice telling him what to do, how to do it, this is a phantasm of his own mind. And yet, if the results are the same … It raises … Oddly enough, Paul, you'll be amazed to discover that I tend to want to treat the questionness of what is real.

it woke him up and allowed his dreams, his nocturnal desires and random wishes, to condense into a semblance of rationality.

O que ele não sabia na época era que às vezes uma reação adequada à realidade é enlouquecer.

He saw only an empty white expanse, a focused glare, as if there were now no 3-D slide in the projector at all. The light, he thought, that underlies the play of phenomena which we call reality.

Time ceased as the eyes gazed and the universe jelled along with him, at least for him, froze over with him and his understanding, as its inertness became complete. There was nothing he did not know; there was nothing left to happen.

Sound occurs in the ears. Sound does not occur in the atmosphere. It occurs essentially within the human being, and that's Descartes's great contribution to psychology and philosophy. Which is where that thing comes from where they say if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there, does it make a noise?

People in dreams are always secure until the dreamer wakes up.

I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake…

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters' food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

Perhaps some particles move backward in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are.

consciousness is a perfectly normal property of matter, like mass or anbaric charge; that there is a field of consciousness which pervades the entire universe, and which makes itself apparent most fully – we believe – in human beings.