Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

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

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

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.

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.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?

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.

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.

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

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.