Book Quote by Roger Penrose

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess…

— Michio Kaku

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

— Alex Grey

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

— Werner Heisenberg

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem…

— David Chalmers

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

— Richard Dawkins

I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past,…

— Diane Arbus

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

— Stanislas Dehaene

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

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see…

— David Chalmers

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

— Steve Maraboli

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from…

— Marcel Proust