Life may be not only meaningless but absurd..

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external….

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself..

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

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?.

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

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

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics..

Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the k….

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occup….

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. I….

We are an episode between two oblivions..

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death..

The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective,….

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and….

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe..

The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of ….

The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all three, t….

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural….

Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical - that is, capable of combining into me….

If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously..