Quotes About Consciousness

You are new to sentience. Your behaviour is still affected by your animal origin.

Our conclusion is that you are simply studying us. We would now like to know why. As sentient entities we have that right.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

Mentalization—a concept that is familiar in developmental circles—is the process by which we realize that having a mind mediates our experience of the

According to Damasio, the core self is the foundation of consciousness, and the autobiographical self is its glory

In conclusion, the neuroscientific accounts of LeDoux and Damasio deepen the Spinozistic insight that we are embodied minds.

Did I dream this belief or did I believe this dream?

The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

octopuses, far more than rats and pigeons, have their own ideas:

The mind evolved in the sea.

What does it feel like to be an octopus? To be a jellyfish? Does it feel like anything at all? Which were the first animals whose lives felt like something to them?

For an octopus, its arms are partly self

seems plausible that an animal might feel pain or thirst without having an "inner model" of the world

When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.

Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.

Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left.

Geometry exists as an innate phenomenon in our consciousness. In the external world a perfectly formed snow crystal would never exist. But in our consciousness lies the glittering and flawless knowledge of perfect ice.

If you have to wait for a long time, you have to seize hold of the waiting or it will become destructive. If you let things slide, your consciousness will waver, awakening fear and restlessness, then depression strikes, and you're pulled down.

in our consciousness lies the glittering and flawless knowledge of perfect ice.

Wir verkümmern, lieber Herr Doktor, weil wir nur noch meinen und nicht mehr denken.

Die Müdigkeit als das Mehr des weniger Ich.

It's intolerable that when someone is born into the world, he can't automatically come to consciousness.

Meine Wissenschaft gibt mir Wachträume, die andere nicht einmal im Schlafen haben." Peter Handke: Langsame Heimkehr. Erzählung. Frankfurt am Main 1994, S. 63.

Poor horse. It was leap and die or live and be haunted by the ability to choose. Which when I think about it, might be one definition of consciousness. I pitied just about everybody.