Consciousness Quote by Robert Charles Wilson

“Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against…

— Thomas Mann

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would…

— Antonio Damasio

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

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are…

— Matthew McConaughey

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the…

— Carl Jung

There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of…

— Jane Roberts

“If we put aside the self-awareness standard -- and really, how arbitrary and arrogant is that, to take the attribute of consciousness we happen to…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no…

— Ray Kurzweil

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears,…

— C. S. Lewis

“In some evolving civilizations, for reasons which we don't entirely understand, the evolution of consciousness is attended by a disaster of some sort which…

— Walker Percy

“[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

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

— Antonio Damasio