Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

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

All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.

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

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea - and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness.

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

Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not derive their sense of self from the group, which does not mean there cannot be a sense of being part of this group. But the group itself does not become an egoic entity.