Consciousness Quote by Alan Watts

Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there…

— Russell Targ

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

— Diane Ackerman

There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a conscious experience.…

— Stuart J. Russell

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

— William James

Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.

— Paul Bloom

Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.

— Nirmala Srivastava

For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.

— Bernie Siegel

The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.

— Kedar Joshi

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

— Edward Boyden

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

— Thomas Nagel

The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but…

— William James

“The brain itself does not produce consciousness. That it is, instead, a kind of reducing valve or filter, shifting the larger, nonphysical consciousness that…

— Eben Alexander