It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

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.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

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

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

A man with integrity, with vision, with a sense of purpose and place in the world as exactly himself. That's the kind of man I'll settle for.

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

Guns are part of the American identity.

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

If you truly believe that your dreams will come a reality the possibilities are endless

I think mixtapes have been really important for keeping my buzz strong.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.