Quotes About Consciousness

The emotional response to each tiny incoming sensory bit can tell the conscious mind if you pay attention to how you feel in the same way that musicians pay attention to sound a considerable amount about the meaning inside every particular sensory input that you experience.

In essence, when sensory gating channels are narrow, as they commonly are, we only perceive a very small part of the world around us. Only a tiny bit of the radiance of the world can shine in through the narrow aperture that is left; the rest of it is gated out.

The world is not a static backdrop across which humans can move, building their suburbs where they will, the only intelligent actors on the planet. They call it the American dream, as George Carlin once put it, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

As Anthony Trewavas once put it, "The use of the term 'vegetable' to describe unthinking or brain-dead human beings perhaps indicates the general attitude [toward plants].

Darwin had two genuinely deep insights that are paradigm altering: 1) that the root of the plant is in fact its brain; and 2) that the plant is using sensitive, and intelligent, analysis of it surroundings to navigate through the soil.

Children who begin working at an early age with music have, as habit, much less pre-attentional or unconscious gating in the neural network that attends to sound. Gating, in general, develops over time and with exposure, the pre-attentional self learning to gate whatever is not important to the conscious mind. Children, by nature, have much less gating than adults—gating

for others gating remains very open, especially among young children, artists, schizophrenics, specialists of the sacred such as shamans and Buddhist masters, and those ingesting psychotropics.

Nevertheless, learning how to attribute meaning to the feelings you are experiencing from the touch of the world upon you is crucial.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

Since knowledge [thought] is not contained within a person's cranium but is everywhere at once as was indicated by the double-slit experiment, belief or knowledge held jointly by a group of people would logically seem to be more powerful than that held only by a single individual.

Thought, it turns out, is everywhere at once. It's part of the seamless whole of reality and is not confined in space or by space. In addition—and get ready for this—thought may not be constrained by time

the point is that this experiment proves thought and knowledge are not confined within the brain. Quantum physicists say it's part of the whole. Anyone

The truth is that thoughts, perceptions, and memories, actually occur somewhere else and then are received and processed by the brain in a way similar to how a cell phone or radio receiver works.

University of Virginia—have collected that demonstrate that consciousness can exist without a brain being involved.

go to YouTube and search "Dr Bruce Greyson consciousness independent of the brain." A video of the lecture should come up at the top of the list.

He said brains are needed to recall memories, but it appears brains are not where memories are stored.

They're making us think our thoughts are what we're thinking...I think.-Patrick Star

A thought that is ignored soon goes away. And there it is! The space between thoughts. How wonderful to see!

If the deceased person has led a wholesome life of virtue, they will see themselves surrounded by hosts of divine beings who will call out to him or her by name and invite him or her to accompany them to paradise. Abandoning all attachment to their present body, they should relax their minds and then gather together all that remains of his or her consciousness and follow these heavenly messengers upward and out of the body to a pure realm of awareness and bliss.

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Dying is active. Dying is not what happens to you. Dying is what you do. Dying

The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.

The goal of the cobbler, Jughashvili continued, without mentioning his father, Beso, by name, was to accumulate capital and reopen his own business. But eventually, the "petit-bourgeois" cobbler realized he would never accumulate the capital and was in fact a proletarian. "A change in the consciousness of the cobbler," Jughashvili concluded, "followed a change in his material circumstances.

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?