Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.

equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.