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

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?

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.

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

religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

Change your mind, change your life.

She didn't struggle and soshe didn't grow

[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.