#consciousness
Explore Books, Authors and Common Highlights on Consciousness
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To think is to be alive.
From Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
The mind is not a machine.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
Self-consciousness is the awareness of self as self.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
From The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
What we see is not what we see but what we are.
Our understanding of the physical world is incomplete without the understanding of consciousness.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
We need to understand why certain brain processes are accompanied by experience.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
From The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Their minds are unlike ours, yet they are deeply aware and conscious.
From The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
The mind is a vast and intricate machine that controls our every action.
In the next few decades, we will see the merging of human consciousness with technology.
From The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
Consciousness is not just a byproduct of brain activity; it is a fundamental aspect of reality.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
From The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Consciousness is a feature of our minds that is not easily explained.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
Consciousness is a process that involves much more than computation.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
The new physics reveals a universe that is alive and conscious.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
There is no true life except the life of the mind.
The mind is a complex entity that cannot be fully explained by physical processes alone.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Consciousness is what makes us human.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
To be free is to be a self-consciousness.
We need to consciously choose which technologies enhance our lives.
From Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
The right hemisphere sees the world as a whole, while the left reduces it to parts.
To think is to be alive.
The myths are the dreams of the people.
From The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Understanding consciousness may require new concepts beyond physical explanations.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Consciousness involves subjective experience and intentionality.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Flow is the ultimate state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.
The joy of missing out is about making conscious choices.
From The Joy of Missing Out by Tonya Dalton
To play well, you must be aware of your own thoughts.
Human consciousness is a deep mystery, and the understanding of this mystery is vital.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
The purpose of life is the evolution of consciousness.
The existence of consciousness is undeniable.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Consciousness is the first step toward self-consciousness.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
From The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Consciousness is a complex phenomenon that emerges from our neural networks.
From A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
The mind is more than just the brain.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Invariably, the brain is the organ of consciousness.
A complete theory of consciousness must include both physical and phenomenal aspects.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
The unity of the cosmos is reflected in the unity of our consciousness.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
To be human is to be aware, to be conscious.
Every thought we think influences our body and our life.
The challenge is to bridge the gap between physical processes and conscious experience.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
The real question is not whether machines think but whether humans do.
From The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold
There is a profound difference between the easy problems and the hard problem of consciousness.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
The function of mythology is to reconcile the consciousness of the individual with the cosmos.
From The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Everything begins with consciousness and nothing is worth anything without it.
From The Rebel by Albert Camus
Consciousness is the first step toward reality.
The stream of consciousness is a continuous flow.
There are multiple ways to approach the study of consciousness, each with its own insights.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
The universe is a manifestation of the supreme consciousness.
From The Upanishads by Anonymous
The dialectical method is the method of the development of consciousness.
Consciousness is the immediate relation to the object.
The exploration of the mind and consciousness may lead us to new realms of understanding.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness.
Self-consciousness is the recognition of self in another.
Most men would rather die than think. Many do.
Physical processes alone cannot account for the richness of consciousness.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Understanding consciousness requires a new framework beyond physical explanations.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers