“Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.” WorldMindRealTermFieldsBehaviorConsciousBuiltMetaphorReal WorldVocabularySubjectiveConscious MindAnalog Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.” WellsCharacterBrainConsciousPropertyAffairDeterminedFixedInternalsSubjectiveInternal Affairs Author:Thomas Metzinger
“I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this subjective sense of realness: There clearly is a phenomenology of "hyperrealness", for example during religious experiences or under the influence of certain psychoactive substances.” ShouldBelieveCertainI BelieveReligiousInfluenceExampleTheoryConsciousSubstanceSubjectiveReligious ExperiencePhenomenologyRealnessVariance Author:Thomas Metzinger
“We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.” KnowsMenShouldPhilosophyFactsTruthPrinciplesClearWiseDependsConsciousUltimateConvictionUnconsciousInterpretationSubjectiveUltimate Truth Author:Carl Jung