Consciousness Quote by John Searle

The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.

— Kedar Joshi

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

— John Searle

“Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.”

— Ayya Khema

“What counts as genuine consciousness, I will argue, is conscious access-the simple fact that usually, whenever we are awake, whatever we decide to focus…

— Stanislas Dehaene

As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental contents to…

— Thomas Metzinger

“What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.”

— Steve Maraboli

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

— Sigmund Freud

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

— Bernard Beckett

“Conscious access is also the gateway to more complex forms of conscious experience. In everyday language, we often conflate our Consciousness with our sense…

— Stanislas Dehaene

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

— Edward Boyden

The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws…

— D. H. Lawrence

An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.

— Franz Clemens Brentano