“I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents—conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.”
Source: Axis (2007), Chapter 35 (p. 348)
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“Evolution is a process, of which we are products, and in which we are active agents.”
The New Divinity (1964)
Context: Evolution is a process, of which we are products, and in which we are active agents. There is no finality about the process, and no automatic or unified progress; but much improvement has occurred in the past, and there could be much further improvement in the future (though there is also the possibility of future failure and regression). Thus the central long-term concern of religion must be to promote further evolutionary improvement and to realise new possibilities; and this means greater fulfilment by more human individuals and fuller achievement by more human societies.

LKML, September 28, 2006 http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/892dc13a2f4c5483
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Responding to a question of whether he holds his views as a philosopher or as a biologist.
The Open Mind interview (1985)

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Book I, Chapter 2, p. 66
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“(…) In reality there is only consciousness. All life is conscious, all consciousness alive.”
Awareness and consciousness
Source: "I am That." P.47.

“I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.”
On Math, Matter and Mind http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510188v2 Piet Hut (IAS), Mark Alford (WashU), Max Tegmark (MIT), Foundations of Physics 36 (2006) 765-794

Session 31, Page 236
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