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“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”

Source: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

“Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness.”

Water Consciousness Vehicle Organisms

Author:David Wolfe

“fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.”

Ifs States Consciousness Conscious Organisms Ifs And

Book:Mortal Questions

Source: Mortal Questions

“In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness.”

World Heart Self Consciousness Organisms Subjectivity

Author:Antonio Damasio

“Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.”

Men Mind Play Body Consciousness Movement Boxes Shut Up Organisms Confined Undone Imprisonment

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.”

Ifs Needs Wells Term Consciousness Evolution Organisms

Author:Jerry Garcia