Consciousness Quote by David McRaney

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— James David Lewis-Williams

I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is…

— Lewis Thomas

Awareness of your consciousness is evolution!

— Chris Brown

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 must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of…

— Alan Watts

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

— Gregory Stock

It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more…

— Antonio Damasio

“You are not a small and unimportant creature confined to the form of this physical body, contrary to popular belief. At the core of…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Consciousness is a disease.

— Miguel de Unamuno

I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I…

— Stephen Jay Gould

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

— Richard Dawkins