Consciousness · Skopia

Quotes

5

Psychological literature

Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits…It is nothing jointed; it flows. A "river" or a "stream" are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

1970

★ 3.6

Scientific literature

Consciousness... Is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

1989

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation.

The Varieties of Religious Experience · 1902

★ 1.9

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Books

5

Godel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter

1979★ 6.9

Stories of Your Life and Others

2002★ 6.7

Zeno's Conscience

1923★ 6.6

Cartesian Meditations

1931★ 6.3

Hyperion

1989★ 4.8