Philosophy of Mind Quote by Edelman Gerald

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order.

— Tor Nørretranders

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

— James David Lewis-Williams

“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes…

— Aldous Huxley

“Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to ‘consciousness’ of human knowledge.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness…

— Julian Jaynes

“I think that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed in certain complex ways.”

— Max Tegmark

“Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon; it is what consciousness is _about_ that is…

— Tor Norretranders

The communications of humanity obviously are trending towards that future point at which virtually all information will be spontaneously available and copyable at the…

— Gene Youngblood

“The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being processed.”

— John Brockman

“As an ultimate example of emergence, consider your own consciousness that is emerging from the connections of neurons in your brain.”

— Rich Jolly

“Consciousness determines existence.”

— Michio Kaku