Body Quote by Thomas Nagel

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

— Thomas Nagel

Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.

— 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

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

— Edward Boyden

“Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness”

— Avis Williams

For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or…

— Eckhart Tolle

Consciousness is a disease.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

— Alva Noe

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

— Brand Blanshard

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

— Sigmund Freud

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem…

— David Chalmers

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

— Erwin Schrodinger