John Searle Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

  John Searle

  Animal, Ideas, Achievement

• Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

  John Searle

  Essence, People, Consciousness

• The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

  John Searle

  Principles, Consciousness, Phenomenon

  "Consciousness, Explanatory Inversion, and Cognitive Science". The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13, 4, December 1990.

• Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

  John Searle

  Reality, Consciousness, Appearance

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