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.

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.

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.

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

Slavery all day, and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

I don't have a problem with people from Slovakia and Lithuania. But I do have a problem with immigration from Islamic countries.

You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.

We all can't be friends. But we can cut each other some slack.

Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.