#consciousness

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will. ↗

— Eric Butterworth

#avoid #consciousness #devil #devils #evil

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. ↗

— David Chalmers

#become #closely #consciousness #going #i

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"? ↗

— David Chalmers

#correlate #does #exactly #given #mean

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life. ↗

— David Chalmers

#complete #consciousness #down #except #fact

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#dagger #flesh #more #much #than

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#only #our #reprieve #time

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#consciousness #defined #development #evolution #grand

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#hit #self-consciousness #stride #where

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#created #level #no problem #problem #same

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #become #being #community #consciousness