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Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms of the…

— Fred Alan Wolf

I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't it neat…

— Paul Bloom

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but…

— David Chalmers

If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50…

— Stuart J. Russell

Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So…

— Siri Hustvedt

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life,…

— Carl Jung

“Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been…

— David Chalmers

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth…

— Stuart Sutherland

We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

— Amit Goswami

A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition…

— Thomas Metzinger