Dalai Lama Quotes

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or produce consciousness... but we have no idea how or why this happens. I'm afraid that in many cases, people in the tech world fail to understand that.

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)

Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

Minds are simply what brains do.

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time to produce so little.