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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

I think there are all kinds of aspects to reality, to domestic reality, and why don't we just talk about them all?

I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.

Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.