Erwin Schrodinger Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Fundamentals, Consciousness, Term

  The Observer, January 11, 1931.

• There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Lying, Kind, Consciousness

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 4), 1961.

• Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Karma, Men, Self

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 5), 1961.

• Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mirrors, Deception, Different

• Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Consciousness

• Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary...

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mind, World, Consciousness

  "Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists" edited by Ken Wilber, 1984.

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