Able Quote by Roger Wolcott Sperry

Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms of the…

— Fred Alan Wolf

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but…

— David Chalmers

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

We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.

— Richard Davidson

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

— Edward Boyden

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

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

— Diane Ackerman

The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

— James Hollis

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing…

— David Eagleman