Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

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"?

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.

I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.

I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

I’m fulfilling my calling when I seek to uphold righteousness in all spheres of life

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.

It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other then Melancholia films do they portray depression in?

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.