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

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.

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.

What you believe determines the way you feel and act... but it doesn't change the truth.

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

"There aint nothin gonna stop me so just envy it"

If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is!

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.