Conscious Quote by William Hirstein

“All our modern “scientistic” presuppositions may tell us that mind must be entirely a mechanical function or residue of the brain’s neuronal processes, but…

— David Bentley Hart

“conscious states somehow reflect physical states in the brain. Put in its crudest form, a brain scientist who knew the state of our brain…

— Julian Barbour

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

— Donald Davidson

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor…

— Charles D. Broad

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

— Edward Boyden

“Unconscious neural activity cannot be made conscious no matter how hard one tries. Part of ourselves is always hidden to us.”

— David Amerland

“Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter…

— Christian D. Larson

“Consciousness is a large-scale, unified phenomenon emerging from a myriad of physical micro-events. As long as a sufficiently high degree of internal correlation and…

— Thomas Metzinger

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

— Deepak Chopra

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of…

— Wilhelm Wundt

“The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt that is always doomed to failure. You cannot…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

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

— Richard Dawkins