Consciousness Quote by John Searle

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

Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and…

— Daniel Dennett

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

— John Locke

“only the failure to strategically control the contents of your consciousness keeps you from feeling the consistent internal charge of being fully alive, engaged,…

— Brendon Burchard

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

— Diane Ackerman

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the…

— William S. Burroughs

“So if the conscious mind isn’t in control, what is in control?”

— Robert Wright

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

— Edward Boyden

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

— Alva Noe

The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for…

— William James

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

— Gregory Stock

Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi