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When it comes to humans, we are today capable of differentiating between conscious mental experiences and non-conscious brain activities.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
since consciousness fundamentally transcends the separate organism, then
Ken Wilber • No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
Other prominent physicists such as John von Neumann and Henry Stapp have taken a similar stance.40 Dr. Stephen Hawking’s former coauthor, Roger Penrose, is even talking about consciousness. Penrose, with his co-collaborator, anesthesiologist Dr. Stuart Hameroff, declared: “We conclude that consciousness plays an intrinsic role in the universe.”
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
Christian Angermayer • Psychedelics: Microdosing, Mind-Enhancing Methods, and More – The Tim Ferriss Show
real neurons can typically only know about the activity of the neurons they’re connected to
Grace Lindsay • Models of the Mind
I wrote to the neurologist Edvard Moser, winner of a Nobel Prize for medicine, and asked whether we could evolve into more abstract beings. I questioned whether our understanding of being a part of the whole world could shift to being more about thoughts than about physical proximity. Moser answered: ‘Yes, that makes a lot of sense,’
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
Brains are very different from computers, at least from the sorts of computers that we are familiar with.
Anil Seth • Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
Max Planck: "I regard consciousness as fundamental..."
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger even explicitly stated: