Quotes About Consciousness

The mind imposes this framework which it calls 'reality'. That arbitrary framework has a tendency to be quite independent of what your senses report.

Maturity imposes its own behavior. One of our lessons—make those imperatives available to consciousness. Modify instincts.

All contemporaries do not inhabit the same time.

Misterul vie?ii nu este o problem? care trebuie rezolvat?, ci o realitate care se cere tr?it?.

Svijest onoga koji vjeruje miruje, ne uspijeva se širiti prema van, u neograni?eni, beskrajni svemir.

Neki ljudi nikad ništa ne zapaze. Život im se tek doga?a. Provedu ga u ne?emu što je tek malo više od neke vrste tupog trajanja, te srdito i ozloje?eno odbijaju sve što bi ih moglo izvesti iz tog lažnog spokojstva.

Self-awareness: facing mirrors that pass through the universe, gathering new images on the way—endlessly reflexive. The infinite seen as finite, the analogue of consciousness carrying the sensed bits of infinity.

En las profundidades de nuestro inconsciente hay una obsesiva necesidad de un universo lógico y coherente. Pero el universo real se halla siempre un paso más allá de la lógica.

And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.

Un pensamiento, sea o no expresado en palabras, es real y tiene los poderes de la realidad».

Why do I so often greet the night out here?' he asked himself. He did not feel Ghanima withdraw her hand. 'You know why you torment yourself this way,' she said. He heard the gentle chiding in her voice. Yes, he knew. The answer lay there in his awareness, obvious: Because that great known-unknown within moves me like a wave. He felt the cresting of his past as though he rode a surfboard.

Não há mistério na vida humana. Não é um problema a ser resolvido, mas uma realidade a ser experimentada.

Time can also be a place, Moneo," Leto said. "Everything depends upon where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.

The high data-rate sense perception and identification abilities of the human system mostly bypass verbal/analytic awareness. We are generally conscious of a cognitive recognition after the fact. In this way, what we understand as consciousness has to be identified as a reflexive monitoring ability with quite limited application. To produce consciousness (artificial or otherwise) we are stepping down, not up.

Black is a blind remembering

I tell you, Prue, consciousness has to be something that flows against the current of time. Time in which it's embedded.

From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Hayat?n s?rr?n?n çözülecek bir problem deÄŸil, tecrübe edilecek bir gerçeklik olduÄŸunu söyledi. Ben de Mentatl???n Ä°lk Yasas?'n? söyledim: 'Bir süreç onu durdurarak anla??lamaz. Ä°drak sürecin ak???yla birlikte gerçekleÅŸmeli, ona kat?lmal? ve onunla birlikte akmal?d?r.

The cleansed mind makes decisions in the presence of unknowns and without cause and effect.

The thought hung like a sine wave in Leto's mind:

Ä°nsan bilinçalt?n?n derinliklerinde, anlaml? ve mant??a uygun bir evrene duyulan ihtiyaç yatar. Ama gerçek evren, mant???n hep bir ad?m ötesindedir.

Thou shalt not disfigure the soul. - The Orange Catholic Bible

Frank Herbert