Susan Blackmore: Consciousness

Susan Blackmore is British writer and academic. Explore interesting quotes on consciousness.

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“Memetics appears to have a lot of implications that we humans are machines, which people have never liked. Of course we're machines, we're biological machines. But people don't like that. Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. People don't like that. My view is that if these things are true it doesn't matter if we like them or not.”

Susan Blackmore

"Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes", Wired.com, 2/29/2008

People , Appearance

“Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.”

Susan Blackmore

Skeptic's Dictionary Newsletter 74 http://www.skepdic.com/news/newsletter74.html

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“Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.”

Susan Blackmore

- Susan Blackmore, interview in MungBeing