Max Planck: "I regard consciousness as fundamental..."
Perhaps the most concise way to describe this emerging paradigm in science is the realization that consciousness, rather than being an accidental by-product of neurophysiological and biochemical processes in the brain, is an integral component of the universe itself.
Renn Butler • Pathways to Wholeness: Archetypal Astrology and the Transpersonal Journey
I want to reemphasize the miraculous existence of any form of consciousness by paraphrasing Ludwig Wittgenstein: Not how consciousness is, is mystical, but that it is.
That you are intimately acquainted with the way life feels is a brute fact about the world that cries out for an explanation.
Christof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
But what if we’ve got it backwards? What if, instead of consciousness emerging from matter, matter is how consciousness appears when viewed through the prism of a limited mind?