Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Consciousness is a disease.
Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.
Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.
Life is a state of consciousness.