Big Quote by David Chalmers

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and…

— Stanislav Grof

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

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in…

— David Chalmers

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

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the…

— David Chalmers

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem…

— David Chalmers

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as…

— Daniel Dennett

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see…

— 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

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

— Thomas Nagel

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

— Rollo May