Consciousness Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old…

— Eben Alexander

“Once human beings had developed higher-order consciousness, they had the ability to see mental images projected onto surfaces and to experience afterimages.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

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

— Richard Dawkins

The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— James David Lewis-Williams

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

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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

“conscious states somehow reflect physical states in the brain. Put in its crudest form, a brain scientist who knew the state of our brain…

— Julian Barbour

“The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure.”

— C.G. Jung

“Fast transitions into higher states of consciousness can be accomplished by means of different concentrations.”

— Grigori Grabovoi

“Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.”

— Richard Dawkins