No account of the universe can be final if it disregards forms of consciousness other than the ordinary one

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• A sense of coherent consciousness arises from experience being compressed into a single thread rather than from the brain's full underlying activity. SWStephen Wolfram4 Feb 2026consciousness
• A society that lets its government dictate what experiences a person may have inside their own consciousness cannot call itself free. GHGraham Hancock16 Oct 2024consciousness
• A superintelligence needs no consciousness, emotions or malice to be dangerous; a goal system slightly misaligned with ours is enough. ÉTÉmile P. Torres24 Oct 2017consciousness
• AI will out-think us, but it will not become conscious, because consciousness is a property of life. NLNick Lane7 Sept 2022consciousness
• Awe is a uniquely human emotion, resting on the metacognitive ability to detach conscious experience from the here and now. RARalph Adolphs17 Aug 2026consciousness

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