Conscious Quote by David Chalmers

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

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed

— John Searle

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

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

— Stephen Batchelor

“Unconscious neural activity cannot be made conscious no matter how hard one tries. Part of ourselves is always hidden to us.”

— David Amerland

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

— Maxwell Maltz

“Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.”

— Ayya Khema

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is…

— Thomas Metzinger

An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.

— Franz Clemens Brentano

“I am optimistic that the so-called hard problem of consciousness will be solved by empirical and conceptual advances - working in tandem - made…

— Ned Block

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

— Edward Boyden