Neal Stephenson Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• [Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend to keep my musings to myself. There is interesting, legitimate metaphysical work on the topic going at least as far back as Leibniz and continuing today, following the theme that consciousness, or at least computation, might be at least as fundamental as phenomena such as space, time, energy, and matter, which are the usual subject matter of physics. I follow that sort of thing with interest but with very modest expectations that answers will be arrived at during my lifetime.

  Neal Stephenson

  Space, Expectations, Interesting

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Dust, Ideas, Add

• Those who think through possible outcomes with discipline, forge connections, in so doing, to other cosmi in which those outcomes are more than mere possibilities. Such a consciousness is measurably, quantitatively different from one that has not undertaken the same work and so, yes, is able to make correct decisions in an Emergence where an untrained mind would be of little use.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Discipline, Decision

  Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.412, Atlantic Books Ltd

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