Despite over 20 years of studying consciousness with neuroscientists, we have not made any progress in understanding how consciousness comes to be, which I find categorically different from anything else science has studied.

In locked-in syndrome, a person can be completely paralyzed yet have an intact conscious experience, illustrating that we cannot infer consciousness from external behavior alone.

We have a strong intuition that consciousness is causal and drives behavior, but neuroscience shows we lack evidence for this belief.

The most unsettling idea about consciousness is how non-conscious matter in the universe can configure to create an experience of being from the inside, and the mystery of how that transition occurs keeps me up at night.

Living in the present moment refers to our conscious experience, which is the only thing we can know for sure, regardless of the underlying reality.

Many intuitions about consciousness are shattered by current neuroscience research, revealing that our conscious experiences are often constructed from subconscious processes.

The relationship between consciousness and matter is complex; consciousness is not merely a byproduct of material processes but is integral to existence.

The brain creates conscious experiences that help us navigate the world, but these experiences do not necessarily reflect the underlying reality, as described by the term 'controlled hallucinations.'

The distinction between consciousness and self-consciousness is complex, but establishing that AIs have subjective experience challenges the belief that they lack something essential.