Approximation Quote by Thomas Metzinger

Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to…

— Iain McGilchrist

It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The…

— Antoni Tapies

“Within the scope of human cognitive experience, consciousness, when perceived, becomes awarenesss... Awareness is the qualia of consciousness...Awareness is the perception of your presence…

— Ilchi Lee

“What counts as genuine consciousness, I will argue, is conscious access-the simple fact that usually, whenever we are awake, whatever we decide to focus…

— Stanislas Dehaene

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

— Gregory Stock

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

— Steve Maraboli

I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is…

— William James

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

— Deepak Chopra

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

— Roger Penrose

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

— John Searle

A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition…

— Thomas Metzinger