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

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.

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.

Always think in terms of solutions. Focusing on the problems usually gives us more of them.

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

I do my best when I'm surrounded by women. I enjoyed that on the Charlie's Angels experience.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.