Analysis Quote by Michael Shermer

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

— Rich Jolly

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Gregory Stock

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

— James David Lewis-Williams

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the…

— David Chalmers

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

— Richard Dawkins

Many quantum physics are realizing or hypothesizing that consciousness is not a byproduct of evolution as has been suggested. Or for that matter, an…

— Deepak Chopra

“[Higher-order consciousness] involves the ability to construct a socially based selfhood, to model the world in terms of the past and the future, and…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“consciousness has a precise role to play in the computational economy of the brain—it selects, amplifies, and propagates relevant thoughts.”

— Stanislas Dehaene

“We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving.”

— Jay Woodman

“the present book’s inquiry into the elements of an adequate philosophy of consciousness leads to the conclusion that consciousness can be understood as the…

— Eugene Webb

“Consciousness is a large-scale, unified phenomenon emerging from a myriad of physical micro-events. As long as a sufficiently high degree of internal correlation and…

— Thomas Metzinger