“The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.” PhilosophyConsciousnessStrivePhilosopherPermitStrifeLiberating Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.” ProcessConsciousnessImagineAwarenessProductsEvolutionDrawsCapacityPhilosopherScriptureAlternativesRecognizingAnticipateEmergenceBios Author:Jonas Salk
“Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.” HumansAnimalLevelsConsciousnessTheoryPhilosopherAllowingPhysicist Author:Michio Kaku
“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
“The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive.” ConsciousnessProjectsTrackPhilosopherProductiveNeuroscience Author:Patricia Churchland
“Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned with various features of our mental life and the large-scale structure of the mind, not our concepts of mind, or consciousness, or anything else” ShouldMindConsciousnessConceptsConcernedStructurePhilosopherVariousScalesFeaturesJustificationLarge Scale Author:Hilary Kornblith
“There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of philosophers have suggested that there are features of the first-person perspective that naturalism just cannot accommodate, whether it be qualitative character, or consciousness, or simply the ability we have to think of ourselves in a distinctively first-person manner.” ThinkingFirstsPersonsCharacterAbilityDealsNumbersConsciousnessPerspectivePhilosopherFeaturesFirst PersonAccommodateNaturalismQualitative Author:Hilary Kornblith
“Philosophers and psychologists have long puzzled over the question of how we know as much as we do despite our limited experiences. One way is to see how children learn. Another example is consciousness. The concept is usually explored by armchair academics. Looking at kids expands our conceptions of consciousness.” ChildrenLongKidsConsciousnessPhilosopherPsychologist Author:Alison Gopnik