consciousness

What if beauty was just our name for experiences that push us out of our mental ruts and burst open our reducing valves of consciousness?

Maybe consciousness is our way of condensing existence into a shareable form.

there is an essential meaning of the word “consciousness,” one that contemporary neuroscientists, biologists, psychologists, or philosophers can recognize, even though they approach the phenomenon with varied methods and explain it in different ways. For all of them, more often than not, “consciousness” is a synonym of mental experience. And what i

We form new concepts without limit by stringing together what we already know or nesting one concept within another. In fact, some suggest that consciousness evolved precisely to allow for open-ended learning.

Consciousness is a distinctive state of mind, but the words “consciousness” and “mind” are often used as if they were synonymous and corresponded to the same process

an error that has been repeatedly committed in the quest for consciousness has been to treat it as a “special” function, even a separate “substance,” a fragrance wafting over the mind process but unconnected to it or to its underpinnings.

Consciousness is a gathering of knowledge sufficient to generate, in the midst of flowing images, automatically, the notion that the images are mine, are happening in my living organism, and that the mind is…well, mine too! The secret of consciousness is gathering knowledge and exhibiting that knowledge as a certificate of identity for the mind. Co

Consciousness, according to Douglass, inhabits the frame of things; it finds itself only by stepping outside of itself and seeing itself in and through its encounter with the object. Douglass then states this theory concerning the inherently reflective nature of consciousness in language that is pure Feuerbach: "The process by which man is abl