Consciousness Quote by Thomas Metzinger

I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this…

— Thomas Metzinger

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

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

— John Locke

For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of…

— Thomas Metzinger

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

— Edward Boyden

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

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

— Richard Davidson

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

— Diane Ackerman

“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.”

— Sam Harris

Consciousness is the ground of Being.

— Amit Goswami

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

— Alva Noe

“Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe…

— Daniel Bor