Psychology Quote by Thomas Campbell

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

— Stanislas Dehaene

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

— Richard Dawkins

“Consciousness is like cyberspace, it is there where we can keep all of our information. We can find it if we know the codes.…

— Debasish Mridha

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

— Daniel Levitin

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

— Timothy Leary

Might we... be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness…

— Roger Penrose

You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Richard Dawkins

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks…

— Thomas Nagel

I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational…

— Roger Penrose

“present we have no idea how or why dataflows could produce consciousness and subjective experiences. Maybe we’ll have a good explanation in twenty years.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

— Roger Penrose