Quotes About Consciousness

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

You cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep

In picking up a rock I could no longer simply say, 'This is a rock,' I could now say, 'This is part of a net,' or closer, 'This, which everything acts upon, acts.' When this way of thinking became ordinary for me, I too became lost in the net and the boundaries of myself stretched out for ever.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

One of contemporary progressivism's commonly used phrases--the personal is political--captures the totalitarian spirit, which seeks to infuse all aspects of life with political consciousness. Indeed, the Left pushes its ideology ever deeper into the personal realm, leaving fewer and fewer areas of daily life uncontested. This, warned Arendt, is a sign that a society is ripening for totalitarianism, because that is what totalitarianism essentially is: the politicization of everything.

El sociólogo Philip Rieff, el gran intérprete de Freud, describió así el cambio de dirección en la consciencia occidental: «El hombre religioso nació para su salvación. El hombre psicológico nació para su satisfacción»20.

La constitución americana, un texto profundamente lockiano, privatiza la religión al separarla del Estado. Todo alumno de una escuela estadounidense aprende a considerar esto como una bendición, y puede que lo sea, pero tal segregación de lo secular y lo sagrado ha repercutido profundamente en la consciencia religiosa del pueblo americano.

Mindful walking reinforces the sense of "me" walking "with" awareness. An exercise more aligned with wise view would be to walk within awareness, allowing awareness the full and true embrace of the person, with the person no longer in control of awareness.

Knowledge begins through them and is

conciencia quiere decir conocer con otros.

En una carta al mismo interlocutor, Einstein hizo unas afirmaciones que han sido citas con frecuencia por los deterministas. Dijo que si la Luna fuese dotada de autoconsciencia estaría perfectamente convencida de que su camino alrededor de la Tierra es fruto de una decisión libre.

Your presence of mind becomes your thermostat of thought.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Gurdjieff put considerable emphasis on what he called the "instinctive sensing of reality," weak in many of us but not irretrievably so.

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.

A scientific world-view which does not profoundly come to terms with the problem of conscious minds can have no serious pretensions of completeness.

Consciousness is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

All I would myself ask for would be that our perceptive interrogator should really feel convinced, from the nature of the computer's replies, that there is a conscious presence underlying these replies

I argue that the phenomenon of consciousness cannot be accommodated within the framework of present-day physical theory.

The algorithm has some kind of disembodied 'existence' which is quite apart from any realization of that algorithm in physical terms.

How is that perceiving beings can arise from out of the physical world, and how is that mentality is able seemingly to 'create' mathematical concepts out of some kind of mental model.

Somehow, consciousness is needed in order to handle situations where we have to form new judgements, and where the rules have not been laid down beforehand.

You are unaware of your theory-in-use. Part of what makes your theory-in-use so powerful is that it operates quickly, skillfully, and effortlessly.