Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

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

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

Do you even recognize your own consciousness?

How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?.. It can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

Our mind is a machine, it is not a mystery. And the mind always wants to know the how, the why. And because of this persistent inquiry about how and why, it goes on missing all that is beyond the boundaries of machines. Life is beyond the boundaries of machines.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.