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.

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.

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.

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings

It doesn't happen every day, but many nights my dreams are like a movie. I don't see normal movement - I see things in very complicated shots. That's why I do remember many of them.

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.

We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.

Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".