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On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

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The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with. ↗

— David Chalmers

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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. ↗

— David Chalmers

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