Consciousness Neuroscience Quotes

#1. Yes, there is an outside world, and yes, there is an objective reality, but in moving through this world, we constantly apply unconscious filter mechanisms, and in doing so, we unknowingly construct our own individual world, which is our reality tunnel.

Thomas Metzinger

#2. The more emotional you are in a situation, the more memories you'll have of that situation in the long run.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. Neuron is to Consciousness, what D.N.A. is to Life. Thus, Biology of Mind is to the twenty-first century, what Biology of Life was to the twentieth century.

Abhijit Naskar

#4. Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes. The emergence of self-conscious states is not a drastic, extravagant, earth-shaking phenomenon.

Istvan Aranyosi

#7. We can tell a lot about a creature's level of consciousness by understanding their perception of death.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. The Kingdom of God is an earthly experience which manifests in an unearthly manner.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. Memorizing facts and then regurgitating them into carefully crafted words is not science people. It's intellectual bulimia. Real science happens when we explore what we don't know. The first law of understanding the human brain and the mind within, is to be an explorer.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive.

Patricia Churchland

#11. Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.

David Chalmers

#13. Without the harmonious electrochemical activity of all the brain structure, the very thing which we call "mind", would suddenly disappear from the face of earth.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part.

Abhijit Naskar

#15. Good and evil are both fundamental features of the human mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#16. A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.

Abhijit Naskar

#17. Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

David Chalmers

#18. If I ask you, are you conscious right now? You'd go right ahead and tell me - yes. That's because your conscious mind is constructing an awareness in you about everything around you. And underneath that operation of your conscious mind, there are billions of neurons working in proper harmony.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. 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 J. Chalmers

#20. We Neuroscientists have come a long way in proving that God is neither a Delusion nor an Almighty Being watching over life on Earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness. I termed this state of attaining God, as 'Absolute Unity Qualia'.

Abhijit Naskar

#21. Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. Infinite and finite are both mental constructs.

Abhijit Naskar

#24. Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

Abhijit Naskar

#25. I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't it neat that the universe is such that it gave rise to conscious beings like you and me?

Paul Bloom

#26. We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember.

Abhijit Naskar

#27. 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

#28. Everyday conscious awareness of a human being is only the tip of an iceberg, underneath which there is a realm of relatively uncharted apparently mysterious processes, which are likely to be way more complex than the usual waking state.

Abhijit Naskar

#29. The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in the lab by researchers. If we allow the mental its own existence as a category disjoint from the physical, we will never be able to get it back in.

William Hirstein

#30. The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?

Abhijit Naskar

#31. In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.

Abhijit Naskar

#32. Science and Religion are two vividly different realms of the human mind. They work differently at the molecular level, but the purpose of both is alleviation of the mind from the darkness of ignorance.

Abhijit Naskar

#33. The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks.

Abhijit Naskar

#34. Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.

Abhijit Naskar

#35. Consciousness is simply the brain's neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well.

Abhijit Naskar

#36. Spirituality, sexuality and curiosity are the three pillars of Modern Human Consciousness.

Abhijit Naskar

#37. When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

Stuart J. Russell

#38. Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind.

Abhijit Naskar