“Consciousness becomes a matter of philosophical debate; it's not scientifically reliable.”

— Ray Kurzweil

"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist 1948

Igor Aleksander (1937) scientist

The simple things are hardest (2005)

“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

“I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete but which is an unending process of movement and unfoldment…”

David Bohm book Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980)

“In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.”

Scott Clifton (1984) American television actor, musician, internet personality.

"60 Seconds With Scott Clifton - One Life To Live", as quoted for ABC One Life to Live, hosted on YouTube. (11 February 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCbW8fBNexw&NR

“Great philosophical systems are never produced in a scientific vacuum but usually follow the formation and completion of a scientific world-perspective.”

Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993) American theologian

Source: The Halakhic Mind, 1986, p. 5

“If a piece of 'alternative medicine' can be shown to work reliably, it ceases to become alternative. It just becomes medicine.”

Derren Brown (1971) British illusionist

Books, Tricks of the Mind (2006)

“All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

Lecture at the Harvard Divinity School (13 March 1884); published in the The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine as The Dilemma of Determinism http://books.google.com/books?id=38DVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22All+our+scientific+and+philosophic+ideals+are+altars+to+unknown+gods%22&pg=PA196#v=onepage (September 1884)
1880s

“[ Gustav Fechner ] was troubled by materialism… His philosophical solution of the spiritual problem lat in his affirmation of the identity of the mind and matter and in his assurance that the entire universe can be regarded as readily from the point of view of its consciousness… as it can be viewed as inert matter.”

Edwin Boring (1886–1968) American psychologist

Source: A History of Experimental Psychology, 1929, p. 269; Cited in: Robert R. Holt, ‎Sigmund Freud (1989) Freud Reappraised: A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Theory, p. 148.

“The relatively small sector of the mind that stands in the intense light of purposeful will and thought is not a reliable standard of the inner strength and lucidity of consciousness in its totality.”

Nyanaponika Thera (1901–1994) German Buddhist monk

Source: The Vision of Dhamma (1994), p. 75

“No one "voted in" the market economy and the industrial revolution, but today issues of direction of the economy, costs, redress, priorities, and goals all have become matters of conscious and debated social policy.”

Daniel Bell book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 6, The Public Household, p. 226

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