Quotes About Consciousness

bir kitap yazmak isterim bazen yaln?z zamanla ilgili bir kitap zaman?n nas?l da olmay???, gelecek ve geçmiÅŸin nas?l da sürekli bir ÅŸu an oluÅŸuyla ilgili. düÅŸünürüm ki herkes - yaÅŸayan yaÅŸam?? ve yaÅŸayacak olan herkes- canl?d?r ÅŸimdi. bu meseleyi didik didik etmek isterim tüfeÄŸini boÅŸaltan bir asker gibi.

A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. (Page 40)

A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself.

The self is simply that warm single point of sentience around which the life of the universe gathers.

Thus, continues Langer, the question is no longer one of 'how a physical process can be transformed into something non-physical in a physical system, but how the phase of being felt is attained, and how the process may pass into unfelt phases again'.

As soon as feeling is regarded as a phase of a physiological process instead of a product of it—namely a new entity metaphysically different from it—the paradox

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

And what I'm conscious of now is of being part of a family. We don't have to explain anything to each other, we understand without words. And I am noting now, amidst my grief, that the men are sipping whisky and the women are sipping sherry.

Our conscious experience arises out of the laws of nature, the states of our brain, and our entanglement with the world.

consciousness is the way information feels when being processed in certain complex ways.

We can speak, think, refer to ourselves as agents, and so build up the false idea of a persisting self that has consciousness and free will.

I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being processed.

Computers are fine, but it's time to return to the mind itself and stop pretending we have computers for brains.

We'd be unfeeling, unconscious zombies if we did.

we all have a number of executive subselves, and the only way we manage to accomplish anything in life is to allow only one subself to take the conscious driver's seat at any given time.

I have come to believe that an individual consciousness represents an entity so personal and ontologically unique that it qualifies as something we might as well call a soul.

Can the fundamental insight—the destructive, creative virtue of simplicity—be transposed from the realm of scientific explanation into culture or onto the level of conscious experience? What kind of formal simplicity would make our culture a deeper, more beautiful culture? And what is an elegant mind?

Supposing you knew -- not by sight or by instinct, but by sheer intellectual knowledge, as I know the truth of a mathematical proposition -- that what we call empty space was full, crammed. Not with lumps of what we call matter like hills and houses, but with things as real -- as real to the mind.

WE ONLY KNOW two things for certain: "I am," and "I will die.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.

It takes wisdom to know what we don't know

How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experientially and experimentally. When the limits are determined, it is found that they are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind, there are no limits. The body imposes definite limits.