Body Quote by Eben Alexander

“My caution kicks in when I encounter either one of two sorts of dramatic theories: those that claim to have found the secret of…

— Patricia S. Churchland

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

— Daniel Dennett

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

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

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

— Edward Boyden

“Consciousness is not something housed in the brain like a treasure in a chest. It is the field of being in which all life…

— Donna Goddard

There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a…

— Jean Ritchie

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

— Stanislav Grof

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage…

— John Green

For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.

— Bernie Siegel

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of…

— Stanislav Grof

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

— Edward Boyden