The self is not a thing, but a process.

I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all together pretend that we knew what "first-person perspective" (or "quale" or "consciousness") means, so that we can keep our traditional debates running on forever.

Speaking as a phenomenologist, it seems to me that a considerable portion of mind wandering actually is "mental avoidance behaviour", an attempt to cope with adverse internal stimuli or to protect oneself from a deeper processing of information that threatens self-esteem.

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.