“The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.” ThinkingFirstsLastsAttentionConsciousnessObjectsStreamsDescriptionRejectsRough Book:The Principles Of Psychology - Source: The Principles Of Psychology -
“I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.” LooksConsciousnessUnitySeekingPrimariesDescriptionCompatible Book:The Self-Aware Universe Source: The Self-Aware Universe
“In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?” FeelsWritingMeanPoetryLiteratureConsciousnessSubjectsStyleStrangeMaterialsIntegrityScenePerceptionAspectRelationCreatorDescriptionSoulfulAbsorptionArticulation Author:Patricia Hampl
“When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.” TryingMayConsciousnessClaimsPhilosopherAnalysisDescription Author:Patricia Churchland
“Monologues, in some ways, are the most scientific descriptions of consciousness and even of gatherings.” WayConsciousnessDescriptionGatheringMonologues Author:George Saunders