Cognitive Quote by Thomas Metzinger

There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So…

— Siri Hustvedt

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life,…

— Carl Jung

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is…

— Thomas Metzinger

The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

— Nick Morgan

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

— Eckhart Tolle

We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so…

— Lynn Margulis

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

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world,…

— Sigmund Freud

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

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

“Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.”

— Ayya Khema