Philosophy of Mind Quote by Richard Dawkins

“The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have culminated in subjective consciousness.”

— Richard Dawkins

Consciousness creates reality.

— Bernard Haisch

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

— Stanislas Dehaene

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

— Alva Noe

“Living consciousness is somehow the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is…

— Lynn McTaggart

“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

“Consciousness determines existence.”

— Michio Kaku

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

— Rich Jolly

“The universe is an illusion, created by consciousness to entertain itself.”

— Anje Kruger

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

— James David Lewis-Williams

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

— Richard Dawkins

“It is the result of thinking, not the process if thinking, that occurs spontaneously in consciousness.”

— David McRaney