Quotes About Consciousness

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.

For if we are not careful, we may experience one or more perverse realizations of AI technology—situations in which AI fails to make life easier but instead leads to our own suffering or demise, or to the exploitation of other conscious beings.

And if an AI is a conscious being, forcing it to serve us would be akin to slavery.

If superintelligent machines are not conscious, either because it's impossible or because they aren't designed to be, we could be in trouble.

Even if AI surpasses us intellectually, we still may stand out in a crucial dimension: it feels like something to be us.

For instance, if AI cannot be conscious, then if you substituted a microchip for the parts of the brain responsible for consciousness, you would end your life as a conscious being.

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade) , Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

It's like trying to remember a dream," I said. "It's in me somewhere.

Sometimes when I am not expecting it, when I let down my guard for a moment, allowing the thousands, the millions of little synapses in my head to work their will, conveying to me just what it is that I cannot bear to know, cannot bear to be known, I do remember.

You'd think the jolt of suddenly being hit by a human bullet would've woken the guy up, but he'd completely checked into the stupor suite at the Hotel Hypoxia.

It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either.

I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

the evil thing is inside, not out.

There are still moments when you can tell something slips into her brain and another world blinds her to us. But a few words from Finnick call her back

A fear of the cracked tongue, aching body and fuzzy mind brought on by my previous dehydration creeps into my consciousness.

to full waking consciousness.

Love is, and you are that. Let no thing come between you and your realization of that.

Mindfulness can be described as an awareness of yourself in the present, including an awareness of your body, your mind, your thoughts, and your feelings. When you are mindful, you recognize what you are thinking and feeling, but are not compelled to judge these thoughts or feelings as good or bad, right or wrong. The practice of mindful meditation is meant to help you reach this state of awareness.

But we see also many souls whose light is only a dim spark because they are still slumbering in the delusion of separation.