Brain Quote by Richard Davidson

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

— Edward Boyden

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

“The brain itself does not produce consciousness. That it is, instead, a kind of reducing valve or filter, shifting the larger, nonphysical consciousness that…

— Eben Alexander

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

— Diane Ackerman

The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.

— Eckhart Tolle

Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So…

— Siri Hustvedt

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

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

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

— Jaggi Vasudev

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 is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

— Thomas Nagel