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"Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century."
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"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."
"The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware."
"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."
"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."
"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."
"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
"There's no consciousness without senses and memories."
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"I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little."
"There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem."
"It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language."
"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes."
"I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years."
"Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news."
"Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate."
"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."
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