Quotes About Consciousness

When you have to do an activity consciously, you are slow and inefficient. Unconscious subroutines programmed in are just the opposite, fast and efficient. But in many cases, learned activities that become part of your unconscious wiring can no longer be accessed by your conscious mind.

Contrary to fiction, you can't hypnotize someone to commit armed robbery, or jump off a building, against their will. A person can only be hypnotized to do something they would already be willing to do otherwise. Same with this. We can strengthen a tendency, put a thought into your sleeping head, but it can't contradict how you feel consciously.

Douglas E. Richards

the goal was a mental flash, achieved somewhere below consciousness. In these ideal instants one did not strain toward an answer as much as relax toward it." —Richard Feynman (Nobel Laureate, Physics) "Once the future is foretold, that future becomes a living thing and it will fight very hard to bring itself about." —Stephanie Garber

How often did people consider the wonder of their own construction? Pause to reflect on the miracle of a DNA blueprint inside a single fertilized egg capable of directing the creation of an entire human being? Not just trillions of cells working in concert, but a hundred billion neurons somehow managing to become a vessel for consciousness.

A number of scientists thought the universe could be conscious, and I had even read a paper that had investigated similarities between the human brain, with its hundred billion neurons, and the cosmos, with its hundred billion or more galaxies.

The origin of the universe is the exact opposite of random. Our lives are the exact opposite of pointless. It is not matter that creates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion of matter. —Bernard Haisch, The God Theory

infinite intelligence who fragmented Himself to experience existence—to

quantum entanglement. Everything in the universe is connected in some way with every other thing. Drove Einstein crazy. And quantum physics suggests that the universe is shaped by consciousness rather than the other way around.

The purpose of consciousness—any consciousness—was to achieve infinite comprehension.

The purpose of consciousness—any consciousness—was to achieve infinite comprehension. It was as simple as that. If a God existed, humanity must strive to discover this God and help this deity become omniscient, not just in one infinity, but in an infinity of infinities.

Fifteen years ago, Elon Musk calculated that the probability we're living our lives in base reality, rather than a simulation, was infinitesimally small.

If an observer could alter the universe by his observation, then didn't the universe require consciousness to even exist?

On some level, the reality of the universe depended on conscious observers.

many believe that consciousness itself is a quantum effect.

Let's go on to postulate this infinite consciousness exists outside of space and time. In a way that is well beyond our possible comprehension. As you suggest, for want of a better word, let's call this infinite consciousness, God. I like that this God is postulated as being beyond space and time. Independent of space and time. If he weren't, then he would require a creator." Alyssa

First, people are born to worry. That's how we made it to the top of the food chain. Constant anxiety is the curse that comes with consciousness, with sentience. We're the only species smart enough to fear not only actual, present threats, but also a myriad of imagined threats. Worse, we're the only species burdened with the knowledge of our own mortality. And this makes us the most neurotic animal on Earth.

Just as creation can be viewed as a process of subtraction from the infinite rather than as an event in which something pops out of nothing, your personal consciousness can be viewed as a brain-filtered remnant of infinite consciousness rather than as a chemical creation of the brain.

a number of prominent scientists believe our minds are quantum instruments. That consciousness itself is a quantum event.

Intuition is just your subconscious putting together subtle clues and coming to a conclusion that your conscious mind hasn't quite reached.

Consciousness is a quantum effect. Even your scientists have begun to realize this.

mind is pretty miraculous. Who knows, perhaps

the goal was a mental flash, achieved somewhere below consciousness. In these ideal instants one did not strain toward an answer as much as relax toward it." —Richard Feynman (Nobel Laureate, Physics)

Discover Magazine (2018) "Down the Quantum Rabbit Hole: Fellow Scientists labeled him a crackpot. Now Stuart Hameroff's quantum consciousness theories are getting support from unlikely places.