Agency Quote by Daniel Dennett

More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our…

— Paul Bloom

Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.

— Fred Alan Wolf

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow…

— Antonio Damasio

If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their…

— Amit Goswami

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

— Thomas Nagel

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

— Brand Blanshard

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

— Frederick Tilney

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

— Alva Noe

Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism…

— Robert Lanza

“Finally, some scientists concede that consciousness is real and may actually have great moral and political value, but that it fulfils no biological function…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Recent experiments in neuroscience support the view that it is our physical brain, following the known laws of science, that determines our actions, and…

— Stephen Hawking

What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would…

— Henry George