Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.

If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.