“Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.”
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)
“Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives.”
Susan Schneider and Max Velmans (2008). "Introduction". In: Max Velmans, Susan Schneider. The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. Wiley.
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